Heinrich Heine Quotes - Page 5

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• Sweet May hath come to love us,
  Flowers, trees, their blossoms don;
  And through the blue heavens above us
  The very clouds move on.

  Heinrich Heine

  Sweet, Flower, Moving

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.182

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• God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to our friends, and tell bitter truths to our enemies.

  Heinrich Heine

  Order, Enemy, May

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.88

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• The beauteous dragonfly's dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing; She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer fair. Full many a beetle with loud applause Admires her dress of azure gauze, Admires her body's bright splendour, And also her figure so slender...

  Heinrich Heine

  Dancing, Dresses, Dragonflies

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.520

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• The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.

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  Inspiring, Moving, Heart

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.17

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• If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses.

  Heinrich Heine

  Writing, Heart, Mass

  Heinrich Heine (1973). “Memoirs, from His Works, Letters, and Conversations”

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• In blissful dream, in silent night, There came to me, with magic might, With magic might, my own sweet love, Into my little room above.

  Heinrich Heine

  Dream, Sweet, Night

  Heinrich Heine (1859). “The Poems of Heine, complete: Translated in the original Metres: With a Sketch of Heine's Life. By Edgar Alfred Bowring”, p.9

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• No author is a man of genius to his publisher.

  Heinrich Heine

  Men, Genius, Publishers

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• Where words cease, there music begins.

  Heinrich Heine

  Music Is, Cease

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• The fountain of love is the rose and the lily, the sun and the dove.

  Heinrich Heine

  Love, Rose, Lilies

  Heinrich Heine (1856). “Heinrich Heine's Book of Songs”, p.109

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• Out of my own great woe I make my little songs.

  Heinrich Heine

  Song, Littles, Woe

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• The negro king desired to be portrayed as white. But do not laugh at the poor African; for every man is but another negro king, and would like to appear in a color different from that with which Fate has bedaubed him.

  Heinrich Heine

  Kings, Fate, Men

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.87

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• A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman.

  Heinrich Heine

  Praying, Lord, Britain

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.103

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• Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.

  Heinrich Heine

  Inspirational, Book, Men

  'Almansor' (1823) l. 245

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• The violets prattle and titter, And gaze on the stars high above.

  Heinrich Heine

  Stars, Violet

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.68

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• He is noble who both feels and acts nobly.

  Heinrich Heine

  Noble, Feels

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• Good Luck is a giddy maid,
  Fickle and restless as a fawn;
  She smooths your hair; and then the jade
  Kisses you quickly, and is gone.

  Heinrich Heine

  Good Luck, Kissing, Hair

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• From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom.

  Heinrich Heine

  Boredom, Insulting, England

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• Man,--the aristocrat amongst the animals.

  Heinrich Heine

  Animal, Men

  Heinrich Heine (1888). “Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos”

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• Atheism is the last word of theism

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  Atheism, Lasts, Theism

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• I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, very fresh milk and butter, flowers in front of my window and a few pretty trees by my door. And should the good Lord wish to make me really happy, he will allow me the pleasure of seeing about six or seven of my enemies hanged upon those trees.

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  Peace, Crazy, Flower

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• The sun's sweet ray is hovering discovered.

  Heinrich Heine

  Sweet, Butterfly, Rays

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• Graves they say are warm'd by glory;
  Foolish words and empty story.

  Heinrich Heine

  Stories, Glory, Foolish

  Heinrich Heine (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Heinrich Heine (Illustrated)”, p.787, Delphi Classics

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• With the rose the butterfly's deep in love,
  A thousand times hovering round;
  But round himself, all tender like gold,
  The sun's sweet ray is hovering found.

  Heinrich Heine

  Love, Sweet, Butterfly

  Heinrich Heine (1859). “The Poems of Heine, complete: Translated in the original Metres: With a Sketch of Heine's Life. By Edgar Alfred Bowring”, p.168

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• The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

  Heinrich Heine

  Jew, Great Family, Chronicles

  Heinrich Heine (1888). “Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos”

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• Terrible as is war, it yet displays the spiritual grandeur of man daring to defy his mightiest hereditary enemy--death.

  Heinrich Heine

  Spiritual, War, Men

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