I call'd the devil, and he came, And with wonder his form did I closely scan; He is not ugly, and is… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
At Dresden on the Elbe, that handsome city, Where straw hats, verses, and cigars are made, They've built (it well may make… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Nothing is sillier than this charge of plagiarism. There is no sixth commandment in art. The poet dare help himself wherever he… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
The stones here speak to me, and I know their mute language. Also, they seem deeply to feel what I think. So… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Oh what lies there are in kisses! And their guile so well prepared! Sweet the snaring is; but this is Sweeter still,… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Lo, sleep is good, better is death--in sooth The best of all were never to be born. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
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… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I am no longer a divine biped. I am no longer the freest German after Goethe, as Ruge named me in healthier days. I… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
First, I thought, almost despairing, This must crush my spirit now; Yet I bore it, and am bearing- Only do not ask me how. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share
Nothing is more futile than theorizing about music. No doubt there are laws, mathematically strict laws, but these laws are not music; they are… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
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. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“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,… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
