Heinrich Heine Quotes

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged

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.

Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.

First, I thought, almost despairing,
This must crush my spirit now;
Yet I bore it, and am bearing-
Only do not ask me how.

A pine tree standeth lonely
In the North on an upland bare;
It standeth whitely shrouded
With snow, and sleepeth there.

It dreameth of a Palm tree
Which far in the East alone,
In the mournful silence standeth
On its ridge of burning stone.

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.

Das war ein Vorspiel nur; dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen."

(Almansor)

And yonder sits a maiden, The fairest of the fair, With gold in her garment glittering, And she combs her golden hair.

The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.

Where words leave off, music begins.

When words leave off, music begins.