 The novella's iconic phrase, "One sees clearly only with the heart" is believed to have been suggested by Reinhardt.The fearsome, grasping baobab trees, researchers have contended, were meant to represent Nazism attempting to destroy the planet.The little prince's reassurance to the pilot that the prince's body is only an empty shell resembles the last words of Antoine's dying younger brother François, who told the author, from his deathbed