Heinrich Heine
Heinrich Heine
Christian Johann Heinrich Heinewas a German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of Liederby composers such as Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert. Heine's later verse and prose are distinguished by their satirical wit and irony. He is considered part of the Young Germany movement. His radical political views led to many of his works being banned by German authorities. Heine spent...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth13 December 1797
CountryGermany
Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward.
He is noble who both feels and acts nobly.
The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang, The apple into blossom burst, To life the grass and violets sprang.
The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer, And, singing gently ever, Dips under the water clear.
From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom.
Newness hath an evanescent beauty.
God will pardon me. It is His trade.
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
Reform Judaism is like mock turtle soup-turtle soup without the turtle
Thought is invisible nature.
All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish.
In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches up the gaps in the structure of the universe.