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• Sweet May lies fresh before us, To life the young flowers leap, And through the Heaven's blue o'er us The rosy cloudlets sweep.

  Heinrich Heine

  Sweet, Lying, Flower

  Heinrich Heine (1871). “Pictures of travel,”, p.221

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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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• 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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• He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his reason permits, is a coward; he who ventures further than he intended to go, is a slave.

  Heinrich Heine

  Heart, Coward, Venture

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

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• And the dancing has begun now, And the Dancings whirl round gaily In the waltz's giddy mazes, And the ground beneath them trembles.

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  Dancing, Mazes, Giddy

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• In action, the English have the advantage enjoyed by free men always entitled to free discussion: of having a ready judgment on every question. We Germans, on the other hand, are always thinking. We think so much that we never form a judgment.

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  Men, Thinking, Hands

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• The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them are right.

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  Night, Race, Rage

  Heinrich Heine, Hal Draper (1982). “The complete poems of Heinrich Heine: a modern English version”, Suhrkamp/Insel

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• The night comes stealing o'er me,
  And clouds are on the sea;
  While the wavelets rustle before me
  With a mystical melody.

  Heinrich Heine

  Night, Clouds, Sea

  Heinrich Heine (1871). “Heine's Book of songs”, p.119

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• Where books are burnt, men finish up being burnt too.

  Heinrich Heine

  Book, Men

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• If thou lookest on the lime-leaf, Thou a heart's form will discover; Therefore are the lindens ever Chosen seats of each fond lover.

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  Heart, Lovers, Form

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.190

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• Jews who long have drifted from the faith of their fathers... are stirred in their inmost parts when the old, familiar Passover sounds chance to fall upon their ears.

  Heinrich Heine

  Father, Fall, Long

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• In the marvelous month of May when all the buds were bursting, then in my heart did love arise. In the marvelous month of May when all the birds were singing, then did I reveal to her my yearning and longing.

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  Heart, Bird, Singing

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• Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man.

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  Greatness, Men, Soul

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.169

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• You should only attempt to borrow from those who have but few of this world's goods, as their chests are not of iron, and they are, besides, anxious to appear wealthier than they really are.

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  Iron, World, Should

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.86

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• We know only that our entire existence is forced into new paths and disrupted, that new circumstances, new joys and new sorrows await us, and that the unknown has its uncanny attractions, alluring and at the same time anguishing.

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  Joy, Sorrow, Path

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• The beauteous eyes of the spring's fair night With comfort are downward gazing.

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  Spring, Eye, 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.167

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• At noon I feel as though I could devour all the elephants of Hindostan, and then pick my teeth with the spire of Strasburg cathedral; in the evening I become so sentimental that I would fain drink up the Milky Way without reflecting how indigestible I should find the little fixed stars, and by night there is the Devil himself broke loose in my head and no mistake.

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  Stars, Mistake, Night

  Heinrich Heine (1882). “Heinrich Heine's Pictures of Travel”

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• As the stars are the glory of the sky, so great men are the glory of their country, yea, of the whole earth. The hearts of great men are the stars of earth; and doubtless when one looks down from above upon our planet, these hearts are seen to send forth, a silvery light just like the stars of heaven.

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  Country, Stars, Heart

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

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• All our contemporary philosophers perhaps without knowing it are looking through eyeglasses that Baruch Spinoza polished. Spinoza was a philosopher who earned his livelihood by grinding lenses.

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  Eyeglasses, Knowing, Lenses

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• The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang, The apple into blossom burst, To life the grass and violets sprang.

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  Apples, Violet, Firsts

  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.169

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• Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time.

  Heinrich Heine

  Song, Spring, Poetry

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

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• Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.

  Heinrich Heine

  Photography, Art, Opinion

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• Tell me who first did kisses suggest? It was a mouth all glowing and blest; It kissed and it thought of nothing beside. The fair month of May was then in its pride, The flowers were all from the earth fast springing, The sun was laughing, the birds were singing.

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  Flower, Pride, Kissing

  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.174

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• Write . . . write . . . pencil . . . paper.

  Heinrich Heine

  Writing, Paper, Pencils

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• Oh, they loved dearly: their souls kissed, they kissed with their eyes, they were both but one single kiss.

  Heinrich Heine

  Teenage, Eye, Kissing

  Heinrich Heine (1871). “Pictures of travel,”, p.175

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