Heinrich Heine Quotes - Page 8

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• Where books are burned in the end people will be burned too.

  Heinrich Heine

  Book, Reading, People

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• The spring's already at the gate With looks my care beguiling; The country round appeareth straight A flower-garden smiling.

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  Country, Spring, Flower

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.126

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• The great pulsation of nature beats too in my breast, and when I carol aloud, I am answered by a thousand-fold echo. I hear a thousand nightingales. Spring hath sent them to awaken Earth from her morning slumber, and Earth trembles with ecstasy, her flowers are hymns, which she sings in inspiration to the sun.

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  Nature, Morning, Spring

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

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• And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow; Sweet voices mysteriously wailing Pierce through me as onward they go. They sail along, and a ringing Sweet melody rises on high; And when the swans begin singing, They presently must die.

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  Sweet, Swans, Two

  Heinrich Heine (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Heinrich Heine (Illustrated)”, p.59, Delphi Classics

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• At Dresden on the Elbe, that handsome city,
  Where straw hats, verses, and cigars are made,
  They've built (it well may make us feel afraid,)
  A music club and music warehouse pretty.

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  Cities, Clubs, May

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.21

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• The Blossoms and leaves in plenty From the apple tree fall each day; The merry breezes approach them, And with them merrily play.

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  Fall, Play, Apples

  Heinrich Heine (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Heinrich Heine (Illustrated)”, p.159, Delphi Classics

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• Our sweetest hopes rise blooming. And then again are gone, They bloom and fade alternate, And so it goes rolling on. I know it, and it troubles My life, my love, my rest, My heart is wise and witty, And it bleeds within my breast.

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  Wise, Witty, Philosophical

  Heinrich Heine (1871). “Pictures of travel,”, p.235

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• Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide,
  I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide.

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  Life, Sweet, Morning

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• Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related.

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  Literature, Morgues, Related

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.123

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• The people have no ear, either for rhythm or music, and their unnatural passion for pianoforte playing and singing is thus all the more repulsive. There is nothing on earth more terrible than English music, except English painting.

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  Passion, People, Insulting

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• Twelve Dancings are dancing, and taking no rest, And closely their hands together are press'd; And soon as a dance has come to a close, Another begins, and each merrily goes.

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  Hands, Dancing, Together

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• Oh what lies there are in kisses! And their guile so well prepared! Sweet the snaring is; but this is Sweeter still, to be ensnared.

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  Sweet, Lying, Kissing

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• A pine tree standeth lonely In the North on an upland bare; It standeth whitely shrouded With snow, and sleepeth there. It dreameth of a Palm tree Which far in the East alone, In the mournful silence standeth On its ridge of burning stone.

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  Lonely, Snow, Silence

  Heinrich Heine (1887). “Poems Selected from Heinrich Heine”, London : W. Scott

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• Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.

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  Laughter, People, Tails

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• In the image of the lion made He kittens small and curious.

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  Cat, Lions, Kitten

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.129

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• The gazelles so gentle and clever Skip lightly in frolicsome mood.

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  Clever, Gazelles, Mood

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

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• What Christian love cannot do is effected by a common hatred.

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  Christian, Hatred, Christian Love

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• He that marries is like the dogs who was married to the Adriatic. He knows not what there is in that which he marries; mayhap treasures and pearls, mayhap monsters and tempests, await him.

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  Dog, Monsters, Treasure

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• Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.

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  Freedom, Liberty, Hebrew

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• Immortality—dazzling idea! who first imagined thee! Was it some jolly burgher of Nuremburg, who with night-cap on his head, and white clay pipe in mouth, sat on some pleasant summer evening before his door, and reflected in all his comfort, that it would be right pleasant, if, with unextinguishable pipe, and endless breath, he could thus vegetate onwards for a blessed eternity? Or was it a lover, who in the arms of his loved one, thought the immortality-thought, and that because he could think and feel naught beside!—Love! Immortality!

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  Death, Summer, Blessed

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

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• The air grows cool and darkles, The Rhine flows calmly on; The mountain summit sparkles In the light of the setting sun.

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  Light, Air, Mountain

  Henry Baruch Sachs, Heinrich Heine (1916). “Heine in America”

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• Glow-worms on the ground are moving, As if in the torch-dance circling.

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  Moving, Torches, Worms

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.96

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• Nothing is sillier than this charge of plagiarism. There is no sixth commandment in art. The poet dare help himself wherever he lists, wherever he finds material suited to his work. He may even appropriate entire columns with their carved capitals, if the temple he thus supports be a beautiful one. Goethe understood this very well, and so did Shakespeare before him.

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  Beautiful, Art, Support

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.125

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• She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin.

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  Sarcastic, Venus De Milo, Yellow

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• I wept in my dreams. I dreamed you lay in the grave; I awoke, and the tears still poured down my cheeks. I wept in my dreams, I dreamed you had left me; I awoke and I went on weeping long and bitterly. I wept in my dreams, I dreamed you were still kind to me; I awoke, and still the flow of my tears streams on.

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  Dream, Long, Tears

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