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
Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.
All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid
It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?
Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.
Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.
It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.
The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.
The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.
I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set upon you to recount their sufferings and even recite their poems.
God will pardon: That's His business.