The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.
—Heinrich Heine
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
—Heinrich Heine
Topics: Genius
Oh what lies lurk in kisses!
—Heinrich Heine
Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.
—Heinrich Heine
Topics: Censorship
The beauteous eyes of the spring’s fair night With comfort are downward gazing.
—Heinrich Heine
Topics: Spring
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German Poet
Berthold Auerbach German Novelist
Friedrich Schiller German Poet
Johann Gottfried Herder German Poet, Literary Critic
Novalis German Romantic Poet
Friedrich Nietzsche German Philosopher, Scholar
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi German Philosopher
Wilhelm von Humboldt German Statesman, Scholar
Hermann Hesse Swiss Novelist, Poet
Gunter Grass German Novelist, Poet