| 42 Famous Quotes by Heinrich Heine
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“Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.”
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“Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death”
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“Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all”
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“Marriage requires a person to prepare 4 types of "Rings": Engagement Ring Wedding Ring, Suffering, Enduring”
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“With the rose the butterfly's deep in love,
A thousand times hovering round;
But round himself, all tender like gold,
The sun's sweet ray is hovering found.”
Butterflies Quotes Source: Book of Songs--New Spring (no. 7)
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“Glow-worms on the ground are moving,
As if in the torch-dance circling.”
Glowworms Quotes Source: Book of Songs--Donna Clara (st. 17)
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“The Blossoms and leaves in plenty
From the apple tree fall each day;
The merry breezes approach them,
And with them merrily play.”
Apples Quotes Source: Book of Songs--Lyrical Interlude (no. 63)
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“And yonder sits a maiden,
The fairest of the fair,
With gold in her garment glittering,
And she combs her golden hair.”
Hair Quotes Source: The Lorelei (st. 3)
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“The sea appears all golden
Beneath the sun-lit sky.”
Ocean Quotes Source: Book of Songs--New Poems--Seraphina (no. 15)
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“The air grows cool and darkles,
The Rhine flows calmly on;
The mountain summit sparkles
In the light of the setting sun.”
Rhine river Quotes Source: The Lorelei
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“The spring's already at the gate
With looks my care beguiling;
The country round appeareth straight
A flower-garden smiling.”
Spring Quotes Source: Book of Songs--Catherine (no. 6)
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“The beauteous eyes of the spring's fair night
With comfort are downward gazing.”
Spring Quotes Source: Book of Songs--New Spring (no. 3)
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“Like a wedding-song all-melting
Sings the nightingale, the dear one.”
Nightingales Quotes Source: Book of Songs--Donna Clara
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“The nightingale appear'd the first,
And as her melody she sang,
The apple into blossom burst,
To life the grass and violets sprang.”
Nightingales Quotes Source: Book of Songs--New Spring (no. 9)
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“The swan in the pool is singing,
And up and down doth he steer,
And, singing gently ever,
Dips under the water clear.”
Swans Quotes Source: Book of Songs--Lyrical Interlude (no. 64)
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“And over the pond are sailing
Two swans all white as snow;
Sweet voices mysteriously wailing
Pierce through me as onward they go.
They sail along, and a ringing
Sweet melody rises on high;
And when the swans begin singing,
They presently must die.”
Swans Quotes Source: Early Poems--Evening Songs (no. 2)
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“The swan, like the soul of the poet,
By the dull world is ill understood.”
Swans Quotes Source: Early Poems--Evening Songs (no. 2)
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“Tell me who first did kisses suggest?
It was a mouth all glowing and blest;
It kissed and it thought of nothing beside.
The fair month of May was then in its pride,
The flowers were all from the earth fast springing,
The sun was laughing, the birds were singing.”
Kisses Quotes Source: Book of Songs--New Spring--Prologue (no. 25, st. 2)
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“The violets prattle and titter,
And gaze on the stars high above.”
Violets Quotes Source: Book of Songs--Lyrical Interlude (9)
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“The eyes of spring, so azure,
Are peeping from the ground;
They are the darling violets,
That I in nosegays bound.”
Violets Quotes Source: Book of Songs--New Spring (13)
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“As the moon's fair image quaketh
In the raging waves of ocean,
Whilst she, in the vault of heaven,
Moves with silent peaceful motion.”
Moon Quotes Source: Book of Songs--New Spring (prologue, no. 23)
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“Sweet May hath come to love us,
Flowers, trees, their blossoms don;
And through the blue heavens above us
The very clouds move on.”
May Quotes Source: Book of Songs--New Spring (no. 5)
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“In blissful dream, in silent night,
There came to me, with magic might,
With magic might, my own sweet love,
Into my little room above.”
Dreams Quotes Source: Youthful Sorrows (pt. VI, st. 1)
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“When I lately stood with a friend before [the cathedral of]
Amiens, . . . he asked me how it happens that we can no longer
build such piles? I replied: "Dear Alphonse, men in those days
had convictions (Ueberzeugungen), we moderns have opinions
(Meinungen) and it requires something more than an opinion to
build a Gothic cathedral.”
Architecture Quotes Source: Confidential Letters to August Lewald on the French Stage (letter 9), translated by C.G. Leland
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“And the dancing has begun now,
And the dancers whirl round gaily
In the waltz's giddy mazes,
And the ground beneath them trembles.”
Dancing Quotes Source: Book of Songs--Don Ramiro (st. 23)
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