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
Silence is the essential condition of happiness.
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
Where words leave off, music begins.
While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.
Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people.
I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.
Woman is at once apple and serpent.
God will forgive me. It's his job.
I care little in the existence of a heaven or hell; self respect does not allow me to guide my acts with an eye toward heavenly salvation or hellish punishment. I pursue the good in life because it is beautiful and attracts me; and shun the bad because it is ugly and repulsive. All our acts should originate from the spring of unselfish love, whether there be a continuation after death or not.
This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end
I live! Red life boils in my veins, earth yields beneath my feet, in the glow of love I embrace trees and statues, and they live in my embrace. Every woman is to me the gift of a world. I revel in the melody of her countenance, and with a single glance of my eye I can enjoy more than others with their every limb through all their lives.
Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.