Ifs Quotes by Heinrich Heine

11 Ifs quotes by Heinrich Heine

Heinrich Heine’s poetic sensibility turns each 'if' into a compact lyric. In eleven short verses he captures the bittersweet tension of desire and doubt, offering a gentle, lyrical pause on possibility.

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I do not murmur, even if my heart break.

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If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses.

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Glow-worms on the ground are moving, As if in the torch-dance circling.

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If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe.

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Phychical pain is more easily borne than physical; and if I had my choice between a bad conscience and a bad tooth,…

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If thou lookest on the lime-leaf, Thou a heart's form will discover; Therefore are the lindens ever Chosen seats of each fond…

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Perfumes are the feelings of flowers, and as the human heart, imagining itself alone and unwatched, feels most deeply in the night-time,…

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Immortality—dazzling idea! who first imagined thee! Was it some jolly burgher of Nuremburg, who with night-cap on his head, and white clay…

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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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Nothing is sillier than this charge of plagiarism. There is no sixth commandment in art. The poet dare help himself wherever he…

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But oh! the Latin!-Madame, you can really have no idea of what a mess it is. The Romans would never have found…

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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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“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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He is noble who both feels and acts nobly.

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