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
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
Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.
The men of action are, after all only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought
The years keep coming and going, Men will arise & depart; Only one thing is immortal: The love that is in my heart.
A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.
The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
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.
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
Man,--the aristocrat amongst the animals.
In action, the English have the advantage enjoyed by free men always entitled to free discussion: of having a ready judgment on every question. We Germans, on the other hand, are always thinking. We think so much that we never form a judgment.
There, where one burns books... one, in the end, burns men.
Where books are burnt, men finish up being burnt too.