Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented. Heinrich Heine More Quotes by Heinrich Heine More Quotes From Heinrich Heine I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set upon you to recount their sufferings and even recite their poems. Heinrich Heine rude pride numbers Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means. Heinrich Heine simplicity nature mean Perfumes are the feelings of flowers. Heinrich Heine smell nature flower Don't send a poet to London. Heinrich Heine london poet Silence can be defined as conversation with an Englishman Heinrich Heine silence inspiration conversation Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume. Heinrich Heine pretty-woman women flower Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too. Heinrich Heine burned humans book Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people. Heinrich Heine burning book people Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it. Heinrich Heine revolution heart people Sweet May hath come to love us, Heinrich Heine flower sweet moving The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews. Heinrich Heine chronicles great-family jew While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues. Heinrich Heine self-respect self-esteem lying The devil take these people and their language! They take a dozen monosyllabic words in their jaws, chew them, crunch them and spit them out again, and call that speaking. Fortunately they are by nature fairly silent, and although they gaze at us open-mouthed, they spare us long conversations. Heinrich Heine insulting long people Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent. Heinrich Heine hebrew liberty freedom I live, which is the main point. Heinrich Heine Reform Judaism is like mock turtle soup-turtle soup without the turtle Heinrich Heine turtles reform soup Nothing is more futile than theorizing about music. No doubt there are laws, mathematically strict laws, but these laws are not music; they are only its conditions? The essence of music is revelation. Heinrich Heine essence doubt law The fountain of love is the rose and the lily, the sun and the dove. Heinrich Heine lilies rose love Glow-worms on the ground are moving, As if in the torch-dance circling. Heinrich Heine worms torches moving There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting. Heinrich Heine painting sarcastic earth
