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
What lies lurk in kisses.
There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.
She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin.
I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, very fresh milk and butter, flowers in front of my window and a few pretty trees by my door. And should the good Lord wish to make me really happy, he will allow me the pleasure of seeing about six or seven of my enemies hanged upon those trees.
In the image of the lion made He kittens small and curious.
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
I do not murmur, even if my heart break.
When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.
Reason exercises merely the function of preserving order, is, so to say, the police in the region of art. In life it is mostly a cold arithmetician summing up our follies.
The fountain of love is the rose and the lily, the sun and the dove.
Man,--the aristocrat amongst the animals.
Ich glaube sogar, durch Leidensk a« mpfe k o« nnten dieTiere zu Menschen werden. I believe that by suffering even animals could be made human.
Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time.
Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you. Oh, what lies there are in kisses!