Heinrich Heine Quotes - Page 6

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

  Heinrich Heine

  Mistress, Atheism, States

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• I live! Red life boils in my veins, earth yields beneath my feet, in the glow of love I embrace trees and statues, and they live in my embrace. Every woman is to me the gift of a world. I revel in the melody of her countenance, and with a single glance of my eye I can enjoy more than others with their every limb through all their lives.

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  Women, Eye, Yield

  Heinrich Heine (1871). “Pictures of travel,”, p.172

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• There is no Sixth Commandment in art. The poet is entitled to lay his hands on whatever material he finds necessary for his work.

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  Art, Hands, Poet

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

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• Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle.

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  Miracle, Strange, Music Is

  Letters on the French Stage, 1837.

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• High in the air rises the forest of oaks, high over the oaks soar the eagle, high over the eagle sweep the clouds, high over the clouds gleam the stars... high over the stars sweep the angels.

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  Stars, Angel, Clouds

  Heinrich Heine (1871). “Pictures of travel,”, p.212

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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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• I am no longer a divine biped. I am no longer the freest German after Goethe, as Ruge named me in healthier days. I am no longer the great hero No. 2, who was compared with the grape-crowned Dionysius, whilst my colleague No. 1 enjoyed the title of a Grand Ducal Weimarian Jupiter. I am no longer a joyous, somewhat corpulent Hellenist, laughing cheerfully down upon the melancholy Nazarenes. I am now a poor fatally-ill Jew, an emaciated picture of woe, an unhappy man.

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  Hero, Men, Laughing

  Heinrich Heine (2016). “Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine”, p.12, The Floating Press

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• It is only kindred griefs that draw forth our tears, and each weeps really for himself.

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  Sympathy, Grief, Tears

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

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• At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it — but I did I bear it. The question remains: how?

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  Despair, Firsts, Bears

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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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• Newness hath an evanescent beauty.

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  Novelty, Newness

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• Everywhere that a great soul gives utterance to its thoughts, there also is a Golgotha.

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  Giving, Soul, Utterance

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• The devil take these people and their language! They take a dozen monosyllabic words in their jaws, chew them, crunch them and spit them out again, and call that speaking. Fortunately they are by nature fairly silent, and although they gaze at us open-mouthed, they spare us long conversations.

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  Long, People, Insulting

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• Reform Judaism is like mock turtle soup-turtle soup without the turtle

  Heinrich Heine

  Turtles, Soup, Reform

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• As the moon's fair image quaketh In the raging waves of ocean, Whilst she, in the vault of heaven, Moves with silent peaceful motion.

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  Ocean, Moving, Moon

  Heinrich Heine (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Heinrich Heine (Illustrated)”, p.310, Delphi Classics

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• You talk of our having an idea; we do not have an idea. The idea has us, and martyrs us, and scourges us, and drives us into the arena to fight and die for it, whether we want to or not.

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  Writing, Fighting, Ideas

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• Perhaps already I am dead, And these perhaps are phantoms vain; - These motley phantasies that pass At night through my disordered brain. Perhaps with ancient heathen shapes, Old faded gods, this brain is full; Who, for their most unholy rites, Have chosen a dead poet's skull.

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  Night, Skulls, Brain

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “Pictures of travel”, p.173

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• Life is the greatest of blessings and death the worst of evils.... all great, powerful souls love life.

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  Powerful, Love Life, Blessing

  Heinrich Heine (1871). “Pictures of travel,”, p.172

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• I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set upon you to recount their sufferings and even recite their poems.

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  Pride, Numbers, Rude

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• First, I thought, almost despairing, This must crush my spirit now; Yet I bore it, and am bearing- Only do not ask me how.

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  Crush, Firsts, Spirit

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• In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.

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  Miracle, Spirit, Reason

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• A lonely fir-tree is standing On a northern barren height; It sleeps, and the ice and snow-drift Cast round it a garment of white.

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  Lonely, Sleep, Ice

  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.59

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• God will pardon me. It is His trade.

  Heinrich Heine

  Pardon Me, Last Words, Gods Will

  Quoted in Alfred Meissner, Heinrich Heine (1856)

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• The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

  Heinrich Heine

  Evil, Fundamentals, Literature

  "The Pillars of Economic Understanding: Factors and Markets". Book by Charles R. McCann, 2000.

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• The butterfly long loved the beautiful rose, And flirted around all day; While round him in turn with her golden caress, Soft fluttered the sun's warm ray.... I know not with whom the rose was in love, But I know that I loved them all. The butterfly, rose, and the sun's bright ray, The star and the bird's sweet call.

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  Beautiful, Sweet, Stars

  Heinrich Heine (1891). “The Works of Heinrich Heine”

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