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Heinrich Heine Poet

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: Germany
  • Born: Dec 13, 1797
  • Died: Feb 17, 1856

Christian Johann Heinrich Heine was a German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of Lieder by composers such as Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert. Heine's later verse and prose are distinguished by their satirical wit and irony. His radical political views led to many of his works being banned by German authorities. Heine spent the last 25 years of his life as an expatriate in Paris.

When words leave off, music begins.

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

God will forgive me. It's his job.

I will not say that women have no character rather, they have a new one every day.

The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.

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

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

God will forgive me that's his business.

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.