Like his contemporary Coleridge in Britain, Novalis on the continent sought out a means to understand the logos of nature and express it through poetics. This chapter explicates Novalis’ contention that poetry is such a language by examining his philosophical, linguistic, and religious writings. Through an examination of key works including Fichte Studien, Monolog, and Die Christenheit oder Europa, poetry emerges not as a subjective expression of one’s impression of nature, but as an external metaphysical force, the constitutive logos of nature, and the ideal structuring principle of society. The attentive individual can become attuned to this poetry of nature, and in so doing speak the language of nature itself according to Novalis, as expressed in Novalis’ enigmatic novella The Novices of Sais.