In Secret We Thirst
Graceful, spiritual,
with the gentleness of arabesques
our life is similar
to the existence of fairies
that spin in soft cadence
around nothingness
to which we sacrifice
the here and now
Dreams of beauty, youthful joy
like a breath in pure harmony
with the depth of your young surface
where sparkles the longing for the night
for blood and barbarity
In the emptiness, spinning, without aims or needs
dance free our lives
always ready for the game
yet, secretly, we thirst for reality
for the conceiving, for the birth
we are thirst for sorrows and death
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Who wrote the poem "In Secret We Thirst"?
Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877 – August 9, 1962)
Hermann Hesse was a German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. His works were deeply influenced by Eastern mysticism and explored such themes as individuals’ search for authenticity, identity, and spirituality.
"In Secret We Thirst" explanation
In the poem, the speaker observes an ironic
human propensity to secretly yearn for reality such as sorrows, violence, and
death even in the most clam and joyful moments of life. This is one of the
poems included in his last novel The Glass Bead Game with which Hesse
won the Nobel Prize of Literature in 1946.
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