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
Whether a revolutions succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
The people have no ear, either for rhythm or music, and their unnatural passion for pianoforte playing and singing is thus all the more repulsive. There is nothing on earth more terrible than English music, except English painting.
Where books are burned in the end people will be burned too.
Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
The more i get to know people, the more i like dogs.
That was only the beginning - where one burns books, one will finally also burn people.
A brainiac notices everything, an ignoramus comments about everything.
Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
The devil take these people and their language! They take a dozen monosyllabic words in their jaws, chew them, crunch them and spit them out again, and call that speaking. Fortunately they are by nature fairly silent, and although they gaze at us open-mouthed, they spare us long conversations.
Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people.
There are more fools in the world than there are people.
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.