I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
Heinrich HeineThere is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.
Heinrich HeineGreat genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.
Heinrich HeineThe propaganda of communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are simply hunger, envy, death.
Heinrich HeineThe fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.
Heinrich HeineNothing is sillier than this charge of plagiarism. There is no sixth commandment in art. The poet dare help himself wherever he lists, wherever he finds material suited to his work. He may even appropriate entire columns with their carved capitals, if the temple he thus supports be a beautiful one. Goethe understood this very well, and so did Shakespeare before him.
Heinrich Heine