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1797–1856 Germany
Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (December 13, 1797 – February 17, 1856) was a journalist, an essayist, and one of the most significant German romantic poets. Jewish by birth, he converted to Lutheran Christianity as an adult.
Germany Essayists Journalists Poets Socialists Also known as: Heine, Heine, Heinrich, Henrich Heine
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When words leave off, music begins.
Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1977)
Ordinarily he is insane, but he has lucid moments when he is only stupid.
On Wings of Song,
Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide,
Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle.
Letters on the French Stage (1837)
Nor have I ever seen an ass, at least any four-footed one, that spake as a man, though I have often enough met men who, whenever they opened their mouths, spake as asses.
Memory plaque Marktplatz Neustadt an der Weinstrasse: "Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn humans."
Bien sûr, il me pardonnera; c'est son métier. [Of course he [God] will forgive me; that's his job.]
Death-bed joke (1856)
Thy letter sent to prove me,
Napoleon healed through sword and fire the sick nation.
If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses.
The future smells of Russian leather, of blood, of godlessness and of much whipping. I advise our grandchildren to come into the world with very thick skin on their backs.
People in those old times had convictions; we moderns only have opinions. And it needs more than a mere opinion to erect a Gothic cathedral.
And once again we plighted our troth,
And yonder sits a maiden,
Graves they say are warm'd by glory;
Whene'er into thine eyes I see,
I believe in progress; I believe that happiness is the goal of humanity, and I cherish a higher idea of the Divine Being than those pious folk who suppose that man was created only to suffer.
I cannot explain the sadness
I everywhere am thinking
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