Only if you know
yearning, can you understand --
my suffering, me.
Je moet het smachten	Man muss die Sehnsucht
kennen om mijn lijden, mij --	kennen, um mein Leiden, mich --
echt te begrijpen.	wirklich zu spüren.

Poem H4211
Amsterdam, 2023-10-12
Only he who knows yearning (Johann W. von Goethe, Frank Sinatra) - 1796
Poem "Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt" (in the novel "Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre"), set to music in 1869 by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, sung in 1950 by Frank Sinatra: "None but the lonely heart" (album "Dedicated to you")
Collection: Finethreads
Keywords: Desire (unrest), Sympathy / Compassion 
Tribute to: Von Goethe, Johann W.; Sinatra, Frank 
Composer: Tchaikovsky, Pyotr