Heinrich Heine Quotes - Page 9

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• Oh, what lies there are in kisses.

  Heinrich Heine

  Lying, Kissing

  "Poems of Heinrich Heine: Three Hundred and Twenty-five Poems". Book by Louis Untermeyer, p. 134, 1917.

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• But oh! the Latin!-Madame, you can really have no idea of what a mess it is. The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin. Lucky dogs! they already knew in their cradles the nouns ending in im. I on the contrary had to learn it by heart, in the sweat of my brow.

  Heinrich Heine

  Dog, Latin, Heart

  Heinrich Heine (1871). “Pictures of travel,”, p.183

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• I have smelt all the aromas there are in the fragrant kitchen they call Earth; and what we can enjoy in this life, I surely have enjoyed just like a lord!

  Heinrich Heine

  Happiness, Kitchen, Earth

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• Reason exercises merely the function of preserving order, is, so to say, the police in the region of art. In life it is mostly a cold arithmetician summing up our follies.

  Heinrich Heine

  Art, Exercise, Order

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

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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.

  Heinrich Heine

  Sarcastic, Venus De Milo, Yellow

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• Every woman is the gift of a world to me.

  Heinrich Heine

  World

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

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• The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer, And, singing gently ever, Dips under the water clear.

  Heinrich Heine

  Swans, Water, Singing

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

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• He who fights with priests may make up his mind to have his poor good name torn and befouled by the most infamous lies and the most cutting slanders.

  Heinrich Heine

  Lying, Fighting, Cutting

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “Pictures of Travel”, p.466

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• This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end

  Heinrich Heine

  Book, Ends, Prelude

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• Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth.

  Heinrich Heine

  Time, Morning, Rays

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

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• Ich glaube sogar, durch Leidensk a« mpfe k o« nnten dieTiere zu Menschen werden. I believe that by suffering even animals could be made human.

  Heinrich Heine

  Believe, Animal, Suffering

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• God will forgive me. It's his job." Heine said this on his deathbed (1856). Hilarious. He must have thought that up years before and counted the seconds to use it.

  Heinrich Heine

  Jobs, Years, Forgive Me

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• With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches up the gaps in the structure of the universe.

  Heinrich Heine

  Gowns, Gaps, Structure

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• That was only the beginning - where one burns books, one will finally also burn people.

  Heinrich Heine

  Book, People, Civil Rights

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• Das war ein vorspeil nur; That was only a prelude; dort wo man Buecher verbrennt, Where one burns books, vebrennt man auch am Ende One will also burn people Menchen. Eventually.

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  War, Book, Men

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• So we keep asking, over and over,Until a handful of earthStops our mouths -But is that an answer?

  Heinrich Heine

  Asking, Answers, Mouths

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• No talent, but yet a character.
  [Ger., Kein talent, doch ein Charakter.]

  Heinrich Heine

  Character, Talent

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• There, where one burns books... one, in the end, burns men.

  Heinrich Heine

  Book, Men, Burn Book

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• Lo, sleep is good, better is death--in sooth The best of all were never to be born.

  Heinrich Heine

  Sleep, Born

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

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• And once again we plighted our troth,
  And titter'd, caress'd, kiss'd so dearly.

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  Life, Kissing, Caress

  Heinrich Heine (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Heinrich Heine (Illustrated)”, p.156, Delphi Classics

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• The dragon-fly is dancing, - Is on the water glancing, She flits about with nimble wing, The flickering, fluttering, restless thing. Besotted chafers all admire Her light-blue, gauze-like, neat attire; They laud her blue complexion, And think her shape perfection.

  Heinrich Heine

  Thinking, Light, Blue

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• The cloudlets are lazily sailing O'er the blue Atlantic sea; And mid the twilight there hovers A shadowy figure o'er me.

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  Twilight, Blue, Sea

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

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• The eyes of spring, so azure, Are peeping from the ground; They are the darling violets, That I in nosegays bound.

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  Spring, Eye, Azure

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.184

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• I consider it a degradation and a stain on my honor to submit to baptism in order to qualify myself for state employment in Prussia.

  Heinrich Heine

  Order, Baptism, Honor

  Heinrich Heine (1934). “Prose and poetry”

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• When'er into thine eyes I see,
  All pain and sorrow fly from me.
  [Ger., Wenn ich in deine Augen sch'
  So schwindet all' mein Leid und Weh.]

  Heinrich Heine

  Pain, Eye, Sorrow

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