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
Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of St. John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comparison.
True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.
He only profits from praise who values criticism.
Sweet May hath come to love us, Flowers, trees, their blossoms don; And through the blue heavens above us The very clouds move on.
In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.
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.
Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too.
Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.
Like a great poet, nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. There are simply a sun, flowers, water, and love.
Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.
Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.