I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

Even though a lyrical "I" rather than Novalis himself is the speaker there are many relationships between the hymns and Hardenberg’s experiences from 1797 to 1800. Fichte Studies trans. The core of Hardenberg’s literary works is the quest for the connection of science and poetry and the result was supposed to be a "progressive universal poesy” (fragment no.