Who is Hermann Hesse

Hermann Karl Hesse (German: [ˈhɛʁman ˈhɛsə] (listen); 2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game, each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Hermann Karl Hesse was born on 2 July 1877 in the Black Forest town of Calw in Württemberg, German Empire. His grandparents served in India at a mission under the auspices of the Basel Mission, a Protestant Christian missionary society. His grandfather Hermann Gundert compiled a Malayalam grammar and a Malayalam-English dictionary, and also contrib...
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Hermann Hesse Poems

  • In Weihnachtszeiten
    In Weihnachtszeiten reis' ich gern
    Und bin dem Kinderjubel fern
    Und geh' in Wald und Schnee allein.
    Und manchmal, doch nicht jedes Jahr, ...
  • In Secret We Thirst
    Graceful, spiritual,
    with the gentleness of arabesques
    our life is similar
    to the existence of fairies ...
  • Stages
    As every flower fades and as all youth
    Departs, so life at every stage,
    So every virtue, so our grasp of truth,
    Blooms in its day and may not last forever. ...
  • Without You
    My Pillow gazes upon me at night
    Empty as a gravestone;
    I never thought it would be so bitter
    To be alone, ...
  • Across The Fields
    Across the sky, the clouds move,
    Across the fields, the wind,
    Across the fields the lost child
    Of my mother wanders. ...
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Top 10 most used topics by Hermann Hesse

Night 9 Alone 5 Death 4 Cold 4 Love 4 Home 4 Never 4 I Love You 4 Wind 4 Human 3


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Brodielaneokon: “if i know what love is, it is because of you.” —hermann hesse
Trainingmindful: “you know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. well, then, love your suffering. do not resist it, do not flee from it. it is your aversion that hurts, nothing else. hermann hesse
Wecherishhealth: at 71, i still believe that age is a state of mind like hermann hesse says. youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. learn how age is a state of mind
Gurglehurdle: 12. the true vocation of man is to find his way for himself. hermann hesse
Ryanholiday: "if you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself." — hermann hesse
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Isaac Watts Poem
Psalm 119 Part 10
 by Isaac Watts

Pleading the promises.

ver. 38,49

Behold thy waiting servant, Lord,
Devoted to thy fear;
Remember and confirm thy word,
For all my hopes are there.
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