Tree Quotes by Heinrich Heine

9 Tree quotes by Heinrich Heine

Heine’s brief musings on trees blend his sharp wit with lyrical charm. Though limited, each line offers a playful yet poignant glimpse into his romantic yet skeptical view of nature.

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A pine tree standeth lonely In the North on an upland bare; It standeth whitely shrouded With snow, and sleepeth there. It…

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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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The Blossoms and leaves in plenty From the apple tree fall each day; The merry breezes approach them, And with them merrily…

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All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with…

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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…

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I live! Red life boils in my veins, earth yields beneath my feet, in the glow of love I embrace trees and…

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I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food,…

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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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Mine is a most peaceable disposition. My wishes are: a humble cottage with a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food,…

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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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