One of them, the more sympathetic, was of the opinion that poesy in such ridiculous attenuation was poetry no longer, and since plain literature is not worth keeping alive, one might as well let what is still called poetry quietly pass away.
The other, however, was an unqualified admirer of poesy, even in its flimsiest form, and therefore he believed it was better to admit a hundred non-poets as insurance rather than wrong a single poet who might perhaps still have a drop of the genuine blood of Parnassus in his veins.
I was principally occupied with painting and with chinese magic spells, but in the following years became more and more absorbed in music.
www.hermann-hesse.deDer eine, sympathischere, war der Meinung, eine so lächerlich verdünnte Poesie sei Oberhaupt keine mehr, und da bloße Literatur nicht lebenswert sei, möge man das, was sich heute noch Dichtung nenne, ruhig seinen stillen Tod sterben lassen.
Der andere jedoch war ein unbedingter Verehrer der Poesie, auch in der dünnsten Form, und meinte daher, es sei besser, hundert Undichter aus Vorsicht mitgelten zu lassen, als einem Dichter unrecht zu tun, der vielleicht doch einen Tropfen echten parnassischen Blutes in sich habe.
Ich war hauptsächlich mit Malen und mit chinesischen Zaubermethoden beschäftigt, ließ mich in den folgenden Jahren aber mehr und mehr auch auf die Musik ein.
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