In the beginning was the myth . God , in his search for self -expression, invested the souls of Hindus , Greeks… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“There's something to walking with autumnal thoughts through the evening fog. One likes to compose poems at a time like that.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“You poets are accustomed to finding words for everything beautiful and you don’t even grant that people have hearts if they are… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Floribert could neither sing nor recite these poems because they were without words, but he dreamed and felt them sometimes, especially in… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“And while he compared all these things which he was seeing with his eyes to the mental pictures he had painted of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“How I used to love the dark, sad evenings of late autumn and winter, how eagerly I imbibed their moods of loneliness… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Once it happened, as I lay awake at night, that I suddenly spoke in verses, in verses so beautiful and strange that… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Sensuality isn't worth a hair more than spirituality, and it's the same the other way around. It's all one, everything is equally… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“With the poet it was exactly the same as with the hero, and all strong, handsome, high-spirited, non-commonplace figures and enterprises: in… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Natures of your kind, with strong, delicate senses, the soul-oriented, the dreamers, poets, lovers are always superior to us creatures of the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Of all the conceptions of pure bliss that people and poets have dreamed of, listening to the harmony of the spheres always… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I had often toyed with pictures of the future, dreamed of rôles which might be assigned to me—as a poet, maybe, or… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“When I composed those verses I was preoccupied less with music than with an experience—an experience in which that beautiful musical allegory… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I would lie for hours by the window gazing down upon the black lake and up at the mountains silhouetted against the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The empire cannot become a child again. Nobody can. It cannot simply give away its cannons, machines, and money and once again… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“You have a picture of life within you, a faith, a challenge, and you were ready for deeds and sufferings and sacrifices,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
A home isn't just a roof over our heads. A home is a place where we feel loved and where we love others. It's… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple trees, by… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The mistaken and unhappy notion that a man is an enduring unity is known to you. It is also known to you that a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“... it would be better for our country and the world in general, if at least the few people who were capable of thought… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“..it is useless for you to build walls and dormitories and chapels and churches. Death looks through the window and laughs..” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“When the world is at peace, when all things are tranquil and all men obey their superiors in all their courses, then music can… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
