Comprehensive information about Heinrich Heine including biographical information, facts, literary works, and more. Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856) was one of the most significant German poets of the 19th century. He was also a 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 (art songs) by composers such as Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert. Heine's later verse and prose is distinguished by its 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.. German poet journalist essayist and literary critic This educational Heinrich Heine resource has information about the author's life, works, quotations, articles and essays, and more.
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I wept in my dreams. I dreamed you lay in the grave; I awoke, and the tears still poured down my cheeks. I wept in my dreams, I dreamed you had left me; I awoke and I went on weeping long and bitterly. I wept in my dreams, I dreamed you were still kind to me; I awoke, and still the flow of my tears streams on. Go to Quote / Comment
In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable. Go to Quote / Comment
Experience is a good school, but the fees are high. Go to Quote / Comment
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith. Go to Quote / Comment
Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent. Go to Quote / Comment