We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged
Heinrich Heine was a German poet, writer and literary critic, best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which composers such as Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert set to music as Lieder.
His later verse and prose are marked by satirical wit and irony, and he is considered a member of the Young Germany movement. His radical political views led German authorities to ban many of his works, which only added to his fame. He spent the last 25 years of his life as an expatriate in Paris, where he became a celebrated figure of liberal and cosmopolitan values. He is remembered for the line "Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people also."
His later verse and prose are marked by satirical wit and irony, and he is considered a member of the Young Germany movement. His radical political views led German authorities to ban many of his works, which only added to his fame. He spent the last 25 years of his life as an expatriate in Paris, where he became a celebrated figure of liberal and cosmopolitan values. He is remembered for the line "Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people also."
With his night-cap and his night-shirt tatters, He botches up the loop-holes in the structure of the world.
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 standethOn its ridge of burning stone.
Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.
The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.
And yonder sits a maiden, The fairest of the fair, With gold in her garment glittering, And she combs her golden hair.
Where words leave off, music begins.