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
True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
The beauteous eyes of the spring's fair night With comfort are downward gazing.
Out of my own great woe I make my little songs.
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.
Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.
Like a great poet, nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. There are simply a sun, flowers, water, and love.
Don't send a poet to London.
I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.
I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one man to regret my death.
Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
And the dancing has begun now, And the Dancings whirl round gaily In the waltz's giddy mazes, And the ground beneath them trembles.
Ask me not what I have, but what I am.