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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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I do not know the meaning of my sadness there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind.
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You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
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The gazelles so gentle and clever Skip lightly in frolicsome mood.
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In action, the English have the advantage enjoyed by free men always entitled to free discussion: of having a ready judgment on every question. We Germans, on the other hand, are always thinking. We think so much that we never form a judgment.
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Reason exercises merely the function of preserving order, is, so to say, the police in the region of art. In life it is mostly a cold arithmetician summing up our follies.
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Don't send a poet to London.
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Glow-worms on the ground are moving, As if in the torch-dance circling.
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What lies lurk in kisses.
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Nature, like a true poet, abhors abrupt transitions.
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Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
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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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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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Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
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Life is all too wondrous sweet, and the world is so beautifully bewildered it is the dream of an intoxicated divinity.
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No talent, but yet a character. [Ger., Kein talent, doch ein Charakter.]
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God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to our friends, and tell bitter truths to our enemies.
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Perhaps already I am dead, And these perhaps are phantoms vain - These motley phantasies that pass At night through my disordered brain. Perhaps with ancient heathen shapes, Old faded gods, this brain is full Who, for their most unholy rites, Have chosen a dead poet's skull.
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Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.
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