"One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time."

One thing I absolutely love about Hesse's writing is the pure beauty and eloquence of his writing. Almost everything he says is so ardent and powerful, everything is meaningful and stirring. "Life was a torment" (Hesse 13). His writing is just incredible, and I guess his beginnings as a poet definitely help the robustness of his writings. I do suppose that some of it could be attributed to the translator as well, though. "How beautiful the world was when one looked at it without searching" (Hesse 41-42). Either way, Bernofsky and Hesse create a wonderful tapestry of words in the novel that is amazing.

Another thing that probably helps with the intense beauty of the writing is the subject matter. "To become empty empty of thirst, empty of want, empty of dream, empty of joy and sorrow" (Hesse 13). Beautiful! The whole idea of finding self in the sea of suffering in the world is definitely just a giant basin of provocative writing just waiting to be written. And the lessons being taught themselves are beautiful as well, "How beautiful the world was when one looked at it without searching" (Hesse 41-42). It's all just a very intriguing family of thought processes and phrases that Hesse has managed to take and perfectly relate to the world via his writing, and I love reading it.