Quotes from English Fragments — Heinrich Heine
1797–1856 Germany
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He who will establish himself on a certain height must yield according to circumstances, like the weather-cock on a church-spire, which, though it be made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it remained obstinately immovable, and did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind. But a great man will never so far contradict his own feelings as to see, or, it may be, increase, with cold-blooded indifference, the misfortunes of his fellow country-men.
English Fragments (1828)
Don't send a poet to London.
English Fragments (1828)