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Heinrich Heine [1797-1856] German

Rank: 101
Poet (with poems)

Romanticism

Christian Johann Heinrich Heine was a German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of Lieder by composers such as Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert.

Music, Death, Great, Wedding, Education, Experience, Faith, Forgiveness, Men, Nature, Religion, Science, Women

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Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.		101
Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.		102
When words leave off, music begins.	Music	103
True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.		104
Ask me not what I have, but what I am.		105
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.	Faith, Great, Men	106
Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.	Great, Nature	107
Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.	Music, Wedding	108
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.	Death	109
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.	Experience	110
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.		111
The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.	Music, Wedding	112
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.	Science	113
When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.		114
Woman is at once apple and serpent.		115
I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.	Women	116
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.	Death	117
God will forgive me. It's his job.	Forgiveness	118
The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.		119
The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.		120
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction.		121
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.		122
God will forgive me; that's his business.		123
Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.		124
I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.		125
Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.		126
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.	Education	201
In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.		202
It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.		203
I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.		204
Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.		205
Atheism is the last word of theism.		206
Oh, what lies there are in kisses.		207
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.	Religion	208
He only profits from praise who values criticism.		209
Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.		210
Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.		211
In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.		212
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.		213
It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?		214
There are more fools in the world than there are people.		215
The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.		216

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