One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time. – Hermann Hesse
To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. – Hermann Hesse
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. – Hermann Hesse
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation. – Hermann Hesse
But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry. – Chinua Achebe