World Quotes by Heinrich Heine

11 World quotes by Heinrich Heine

Heinrich Heine’s sharp wit shines through these eleven short musings on the World. The collection offers a quick taste of his lyrical irony and cultural critique.

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

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Every woman is the gift of a world to me.

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There are more fools in the world than there are people.

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“If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world.”

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The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

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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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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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I call'd the devil, and he came, And with wonder his form did I closely scan; He is not ugly, and is…

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You should only attempt to borrow from those who have but few of this world's goods, as their chests are not of…

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The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the shames of the world, has…

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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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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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