All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in c…

Hermann Hesse
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All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling surges in waves, the soul feels itself profoundly and finds itself. Tears are the melting ice of snow. All angels are close to the crying person. ✨ Hermann Hesse (2009). The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse, p.182, Bantam
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