Poet Quotes by Heinrich Heine

10 Poet quotes by Heinrich Heine

Heine’s witty, often ironic tone surfaces when he comments on poetry; this tiny set captures that distinctive blend of humor and insight.

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Don't send a poet to London.

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Nature, like a true poet, abhors abrupt transitions.

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The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.

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Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

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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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There is no Sixth Commandment in art. The poet is entitled to lay his hands on whatever material he finds necessary for…

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Like a great poet, nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. There are simply a sun, flowers, water, and love.

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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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Perhaps already I am dead, And these perhaps are phantoms vain;— These motley phantasies that pass At night through my disordered brain.…

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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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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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