Heinrich Heine Quotes - Page 5

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• Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

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  Sleep, Miracle, Lovely

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• All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish.

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  Equality, Law, Special

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

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• On the waves of the brook she dances by, The light, the lovely dragon-fly; She dances here, she dances there, The shimmering, glimmering flutterer fair. And many a foolish young beetle's impressed By the blue gauze gown in which she is dressed; They admire the enamel that decks her bright, And her elegant waist so slim and slight.

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  Light, Blue, Dragons

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• Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

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  Nature, Mean, Simplicity

  Heinrich Heine (1871). “Pictures of travel,”, p.58

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• Don't send a poet to London.

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  London, Poet

  "English Fragments" by Heinrich Heine, ch. 2, 1828.

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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.

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  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.

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  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...

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  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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• 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.

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  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.

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  Men, Genius, Publishers

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

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  Writing, Heart, Mass

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

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

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  Love, Rose, Lilies

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

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• Where words cease, there music begins.

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  Music Is, Cease

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

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  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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• Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.

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  Mistress, Atheism, States

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

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  Inspirational, Book, Men

  'Almansor' (1823) l. 245

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• The artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose tears was a pearl.

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  Children, Artist, Suffering

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.119

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

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  Stars, Violet

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

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• Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.

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  Ideas, Christianity, Immortal

  Heinrich Heine (1985). “The Romantic School and Other Essays: Heinrich Heine”, p.130, A&C Black

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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.

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  Good Luck, Kissing, Hair

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• He is noble who both feels and acts nobly.

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  Noble, Feels

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• Atheism is the last word of theism

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  Atheism, Lasts, Theism

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• Man,--the aristocrat amongst the animals.

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  Animal, Men

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

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• The sun's sweet ray is hovering discovered.

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  Sweet, Butterfly, Rays

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