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It is an ancient story Yet is it ever new.
Heinrich Heine
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Heinrich Heine
Age: 58 †
Born: 1797
Born: December 13
Died: 1856
Died: February 17
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Christian Johann Heinrich Heine
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In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I, My thoughts without ceasing brood over A tale of the time gone by.
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The negro king desired to be portrayed as white. But do not laugh at the poor African for every man is but another negro king, and would like to appear in a color different from that with which Fate has bedaubed him.
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The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
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Ask me not what I have, but what I am.
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The violets prattle and titter, And gaze on the stars high above.
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Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.
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The stones here speak to me, and I know their mute language. Also, they seem deeply to feel what I think. So a broken column of the old Roman times, an old tower of Lombardy, a weather- beaten Gothic piece of a pillar understands me well. But I am a ruin myself, wandering among ruins.
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When'er into thine eyes I see, All pain and sorrow fly from me. [Ger., Wenn ich in deine Augen sch' So schwindet all' mein Leid und Weh.]
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I consider it a degradation and a stain on my honor to submit to baptism in order to qualify myself for state employment in Prussia.
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You talk of our having an idea we do not have an idea. The idea has us, and martyrs us, and scourges us, and drives us into the arena to fight and die for it, whether we want to or not.
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Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
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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.
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Newness hath an evanescent beauty.
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Write . . . write . . . pencil . . . paper.
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Where words leave off, music begins.
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Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.
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Genius: 1. to believe your own thought. To believe that what is true for you is ultimately true. 2. a sledgehammer. 3. the fruit of labour and thought. 4. soul. 5. the ability to put into effect what is in your mind. 6. something one can become.
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Oh, they loved dearly: their souls kissed, they kissed with their eyes, they were both but one single kiss.
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There is no Sixth Commandment in art. The poet is entitled to lay his hands on whatever material he finds necessary for his work.
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Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time.
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