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
Wherever they burn books they will also end up burning people.
Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.
Where one burns books, one will soon burn people.
Where books are burned in the end people will be burned too.
That was only the beginning - where one burns books, one will finally also burn people.
Das war ein vorspeil nur; That was only a prelude; dort wo man Buecher verbrennt, Where one burns books, vebrennt man auch am Ende One will also burn people Menchen. Eventually.
There, where one burns books... one, in the end, burns men.
Where books are burnt, men finish up being burnt too.
This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end
Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people.
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too.
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men, and rocks them up to manhood; and this meager foster-mother remains their faithful companion throughout life