Full Idea
Poetry is true idealism - contemplation of the world as contemplation of a large mind - self-consciousness of the universe.
Gist of Idea
Poetry is true idealism, and the self-consciousness of the universe
Source
Novalis (Logological Fragments I [1798], vol 3 p.640), quoted by Ernst Behler - Early German Romanticism
Book Reference
'A Companion to Continental Philosophy', ed/tr. Critchley,S/Schroeder,W [Blackwell 1999], p.77
A Reaction
It looks like the step from Fichte's idealism to the Absolute is poetry, which embraces the ultimate Spinozan substance through imagination. Or something...