Heinrich Heine Quotes - Page 9

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

  Heinrich Heine

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

  Heinrich Heine

  Cat, Lions, Kitten

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

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

  Heinrich Heine

  Freedom, Liberty, Hebrew

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• Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.

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  Ideas, Christianity, Immortal

  Heinrich Heine (1985). “The Romantic School and Other Essays: Heinrich Heine”, p.130, A&C Black

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

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  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.

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  Time, Morning, Rays

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

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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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• 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.

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  Believe, Animal, Suffering

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

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  Book, Men, Burn Book

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

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  Book, People, Civil Rights

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

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  Asking, Answers, Mouths

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

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  Character, Talent

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.]

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  Pain, Eye, Sorrow

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

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  Sleep, Born

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

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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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• 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.

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  Order, Baptism, Honor

  Heinrich Heine (1934). “Prose and poetry”

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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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• 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.

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  Thinking, Light, Blue

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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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