Sweet Quotes by Heinrich Heine

10 Sweet quotes by Heinrich Heine

Heine’s bittersweet take on the concept arrives in ten brief lines, a compact taste of his 19th‑century wit and melancholy.

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The sun's sweet ray is hovering discovered.

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With the rose the butterfly's deep in love, A thousand times hovering round; But round himself, all tender like gold, The sun's…

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Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide, I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide.

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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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In blissful dream, in silent night, There came to me, with magic might, With magic might, my own sweet love, Into my…

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Sweet May lies fresh before us, To life the young flowers leap, And through the Heaven's blue o'er us The rosy cloudlets…

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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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Oh what lies there are in kisses! And their guile so well prepared! Sweet the snaring is; but this is Sweeter still,…

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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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And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow; Sweet voices mysteriously wailing Pierce through me as onward they…

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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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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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