Heinrich Heine Quotes - Page 6

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• Life is all too wondrous sweet, and the world is so beautifully bewildered; it is the dream of an intoxicated divinity.

  Heinrich Heine

  Life, Dream, Sweet

  Heinrich Heine (1871). “Pictures of travel,”, p.171

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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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• 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.

  Heinrich Heine

  Pride, Numbers, Rude

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• Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume.

  Heinrich Heine

  Women, Flower, Pretty Woman

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.117

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

  Heinrich Heine

  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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• 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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• The sun's sweet ray is hovering discovered.

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  Sweet, Butterfly, Rays

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

  Heinrich Heine

  Book, Men

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• Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.

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  Soldier, Funny Wedding, Battle

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Heinrich Heine

  Long, People, Insulting

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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.

  Heinrich Heine

  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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• 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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• The negro king desired to be portrayed as white. But do not laugh at the poor African; for every man is but another negro king, and would like to appear in a color different from that with which Fate has bedaubed him.

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  Kings, Fate, Men

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.87

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• He is noble who both feels and acts nobly.

  Heinrich Heine

  Noble, Feels

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