Hermann Hesse is the famed author of Siddartha. He also wrote Demian and The Glass Bead Game. His work often explored the search for knowledge and truth. He was an influential and popular author during his lifetime. Hesse won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature. Read more of Hermann Hesse’s Biography.
‘Lament’ by Hermann Hesse describes the mental and emotional state of a speaker who is unable to settle on one way of being.
No permanence is ours; we are a wave That flows to fit whatever form it finds: Through day or night, cathedral or the cave We pass forever, craving form that binds.
‘On A Journey’ by Hermann Hesse is a poem that seeks to provide both comfort and solace to those who find themselves demoralized by life’s journeys.
Don't be downcast, soon the night will come,
When we can see the cool moon laughing in secret
Over the faint countryside,
And we rest, hand in hand.
‘Stages’ by Hermann Hesse describes how death is only a stage through which one progresses during life. The speaker wants death to be embraced.
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