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Flowers Quotes by Heinrich Heine

9 Flowers quotes by Heinrich Heine

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Heinrich Heine’s nine brief musings on blossoms give a quick glimpse into his witty, often melancholic perspective on nature. Though the collection is modest, each quote carries his characteristic lyrical flair, making it a pleasant entry point for fans of his floral verses.

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The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love.

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The fountain of love is the rose and the lily, the sun and the dove.

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Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume.

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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…

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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…

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“I once saw many flowers blooming Upon my way, in indolence I scorned to pick them in my going And passed in…

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The butterfly long loved the beautiful rose, And flirted around all day; While round him in turn with her golden caress, Soft…

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Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and…

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Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction.

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Lo, sleep is good, better is death--in sooth The best of all were never to be born.

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Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid

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Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

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Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward.

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The beauteous dragonfly's dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing; She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer fair. Full…

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I am no longer a divine biped. I am no longer the freest German after Goethe, as Ruge named me in healthier days. I…

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First, I thought, almost despairing, This must crush my spirit now; Yet I bore it, and am bearing- Only do not ask me how.

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Nothing is more futile than theorizing about music. No doubt there are laws, mathematically strict laws, but these laws are not music; they are…

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A lonely fir-tree is standing On a northern barren height; It sleeps, and the ice and snow-drift Cast round it a garment of white.

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Thought is invisible nature.

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“Still is the night, it quiets the streets down, In that window my love would appear; She's long since gone away from this town,…

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The dragon-fly is dancing,— Is on the water glancing, She flits about with nimble wing, The flickering, fluttering, restless thing. Besotted chafers all admire…

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There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.

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He is noble who both feels and acts nobly.

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