Heinrich Heine

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.

— Heinrich Heine

Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and…

— Heinrich Heine

Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.

— Heinrich Heine

“Christianity - and that is its greatest merit - has somewhat mitigated that brutal Germanic love of war, but it could not…

— Heinrich Heine

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

— Heinrich Heine

A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

— Heinrich Heine

The fountain of love is the rose and the lily, the sun and the dove.

— Heinrich Heine

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

— Heinrich Heine

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers, and as the human heart, imagining itself alone and unwatched, feels most deeply in the night-time,…

— Heinrich Heine

She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin.

— Heinrich Heine

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

— Heinrich Heine

Where words cease, there music begins.

— Heinrich Heine

The negro king desired to be portrayed as white. But do not laugh at the poor African; for every man is but…

— Heinrich Heine

Reform Judaism is like mock turtle soup-turtle soup without the turtle

— Heinrich Heine

Sweet May hath come to love us, Flowers, trees, their blossoms don; And through the blue heavens above us The very clouds…

— Heinrich Heine

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

— Heinrich Heine

Everywhere that a great soul gives utterance to its thoughts, there also is a Golgotha.

— Heinrich Heine

The years keep coming and going, Men will arise & depart; Only one thing is immortal: The love that is in my heart.

— Heinrich Heine

All our contemporary philosophers perhaps without knowing it are looking through eyeglasses that Baruch Spinoza polished. Spinoza was a philosopher who earned…

— Heinrich Heine

The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang, The apple into blossom burst, To life the grass and violets…

— Heinrich Heine

The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer, And, singing gently ever, Dips under the water…

— Heinrich Heine

In the marvelous month of May when all the buds were bursting, then in my heart did love arise. In the marvelous…

— Heinrich Heine

Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men, and rocks them up to manhood; and this meager foster-mother remains their…

— Heinrich Heine

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

— Heinrich Heine

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

— Heinrich Heine