by
Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
Ist auch alles Trug und Wahn
Language: German (Deutsch)
Available translation(s): ENG
Ist auch alles Trug und Wahn
Und die Wahrheit stehts unnennbar,
Dennoch blickt der Berg mich an
Zackig und genau erkennbar.
Hirsch und Rabe, rote Rose,
Meeresblau und bunte Welt:
Sammle dich - und sie zerfällt
Ins Gestalt- und Namenlose.
Sammle dich und kehre ein,
Lerne schauen, lerne lesen!
Sammle dich - und Welt wird Schein.
Sammle dich - und Schein wird Wesen.
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Confirmed with Hermann Hesse, Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Volker Michels, Band 10 Die Gedichte, bearbeitet von Peter Huber, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002, page 394.
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- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Though everything be deception and delusion", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Though everything be deception and delusion
Language: English  after the German (Deutsch)
Though everything be deception and delusion
And truth be ever unnameable,
Nevertheless, the mountain gazes at me,
Jagged and precisely perceptible.
Deer and raven, red rose,
The blue of the sea and the colourful world:
Collect yourself - and it collapses
Into that which is formless and nameless.
Collect yourself and turn inward,
Learn to observe, learn to read!
Collect yourself - and the world becomes illusion.
Collect yourself - and illusion becomes being.
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