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
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.
Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related.
Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.
Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
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
We should forgive our enemies, but only after they have been hanged first.
Whether a revolutions succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
Wherever they burn books they will also end up burning people.
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world
One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged