Heine Quotes
- We don't catch hold of an idea, rather the idea catches hold of us and enslaves us and whips us into the arena so that… — Anna Funder
- Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts. — Karl Kraus
- Heine commenting on the music of Louis Hector Berlioz: He is an immense nightingale, a lark as great as an eagle. . . . The… — Hector Berlioz
- God will forgive me. It's his job." Heine said this on his deathbed (1856). Hilarious. He must have thought that up years before and counted… — Heinrich Heine
- The success of Heine -- to become a world-famous 'unknown poet.' — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec