340 Quotes by Heinrich Heine

The sun's sweet ray is hovering discovered.

Silence can be defined as conversation with an Englishman

I do not know the meaning of my sadness; there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind.

There is no Sixth Commandment in art. The poet is entitled to lay his hands on whatever material he finds necessary for his work.

The arrow belongs not to the archer when it has once left the bow; the word no longer belongs to the speaker when it has once passed his lips, especially when it has been multiplied by the press.

Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. For it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon, between spirit and matter.

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

No compass has ever been invented for the high seas of matrimony.

He that marries is like the dogs who was married to the Adriatic. He knows not what there is in that which he marries; mayhap treasures and pearls, mayhap monsters and tempests, await him.