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
Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man.
Newness hath an evanescent beauty.
Everywhere that a great soul gives utterance to its thoughts, there also is a Golgotha.
Thought is invisible nature.
Terrible as is war, it yet displays the spiritual grandeur of man daring to defy his mightiest hereditary enemy--death.
Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume.
The Portuguese, Dutch and English have been for a long time year after year, shipping home the treasures of India in their big vessels. We Germans have been all along been left to watch it. Germany would do likewise, but hers would be treasures of spiritual knowledge.
The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the shames of the world, has taken the intelligent resolution to become mad
It is only kindred griefs that draw forth our tears, and each weeps really for himself.
Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.
The men of the past had convictions, while we moderns have only opinions.
The negro king desired to be portrayed as white. But do not laugh at the poor African; for every man is but another negro king, and would like to appear in a color different from that with which Fate has bedaubed him.
A brainiac notices everything, an ignoramus comments about everything.
If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses.