In late 2023, I started to rue how cluttered my mind had become. I decided to commit poems to heart, so that I would remember beautiful things when I drift off, instead of memes and advertising jingles. This was a Silvester resolution. These are the 52 poems I memorized, with a little tool to help me learn them.
| No. | Author | German | Year | English |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trakl | Im Osten | 1915 | |
| 2 | Benn | Kreislauf | 1912 | |
| 3 | Novalis | Ich sehe Dich in tausend Bildern, Maria | 1802 | |
| 4 | Hölderlin | Hälfte des Lebens | 1804 | |
| 5 | Rilke | Der Panther | 1903 | |
| 6 | Rilke | Die Liebende | 1908 | |
| 7 | Ringelnatz | Logik | 1912 | |
| 8 | Heine | Die Lorelei | 1823 | |
| 9 | Schiller | An die Freude | 1785 | |
| 10 | Trakl | Grodek | 1914 | |
| 11 | Silesius | Die Rose ist ohne Warum | 1657 | |
| 12 | George | Komm in den totgesagten park und schau | 1885 | |
| 13 | Heine | Belsatzar | 1820 | |
| 14 | Poe | 1849 | Annabel Lee | |
| 15 | Blake | 1794 | The Tyger | |
| 16 | Henley | 1888 | Invictus | |
| 17 | Poe | 1840 | Silence | |
| 18 | The Psalmist | 1611 | Psalm 23 | |
| 19 | Rilke | Archaïscher Torso Apollos | 1908 | |
| 20 | Yeats | 1919 | The Second Coming | |
| 21 | Byron | 1814 | She Walks in Beauty | |
| 22 | Yeats | 1919 | An Irish Airman Foresees his Death | |
| 23 | Pound | 1926 | Paracelsus in Excelsis | |
| 24 | Frost | 1923 | Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening | |
| 25 | Jeffers | 1912 | To Helen About Her Hair | |
| 26 | Eichendorff | Mondnacht | 1837 | |
| 27 | The Psalmist | 1611 | Psalm 91 | |
| 28 | Benn | Drohung | 1913 | |
| 29 | George | Mein kind kam heim | 1907 |