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
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.
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
There are more fools in the world than there are people.
The stones here speak to me, and I know their mute language. Also, they seem deeply to feel what I think. So a broken column of the old Roman times, an old tower of Lombardy, a weather- beaten Gothic piece of a pillar understands me well. But I am a ruin myself, wandering among ruins.
The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love.
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe.
Phychical pain is more easily borne than physical; and if I had my choice between a bad conscience and a bad tooth, I should choose the former.