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
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.
Where one burns books, one will soon burn people.
Where they would burn books, they would burn people.