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Heinrich Heine
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„Rossini, divine master.“
„Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.“
„Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle.“
„If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses.“
„The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.“
„Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of St. John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comparison.“
„The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.“
„Hence the one-sided errors—ces erreurs d’idée fixe—which we cannot escape when we stand too near to one or the other party; either deceives, yet does it unaware, and we confide most willingly in those who think as we do. But if we are by chance of such indifferent nature that we, without special predilection, keep in continual intercourse with all, then we are bewildered by the perfect self-confidence of either party, and our judgement is neutralised in the most depressing manner.“
„So we keep asking, over and over,Until a handful of earthStops our mouths —But is that an answer?“
„Out of my own great woeI make my little songs.“
„Mark this well, you proud men of action: You are nothing but the unwitting agents of the men of thought who often, in quiet self-effacement, mark out most exactly all your doings in advance.“
„Don’t send a poet to London.“
„Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.“
„Oaks shall be rent; the Word shall shatter —Yea, on that fiery day, the Crown,Even the palace walls shall totter,And domes and spires come crashing down.“
„True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.“
„Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.“
„The whole system of symbolism impressed on the art and the life of the Middle Ages must awaken the admiration of poets in all times. In reality, what colossal unity there is in Christian art, especially in its architecture! These Gothic cathedrals, how harmoniously they accord with the worship of which they are the temples, and how the idea of the Church reveals itself in them! Everything about them strives upwards, everything transubstantiates itself; the stone buds forth into branches and foliage, and becomes a tree; the fruit of the vine and the ears of corn become blood and flesh; the man becomes God; God becomes a pure spirit. For the poet, the Christian life of the Middle Ages is a precious and inexhaustibly fruitful field. Only through Christianity could the circumstances of life combine to form such striking contrasts, such motley sorrow, such weird beauty, that one almost fancies such things can never have had any real existence, and that it is all a vast fever-dream the fever-dream of a delirious deity. Even Nature, during this sublime epoch of the Christian religion, seemed to have put on a fantastic disguise; for oftentimes though man, absorbed in abstract subtilties, turned away from her with abhorrence, she would recall him to her with a voice so mysteriously sweet, so terrible in its tenderness, so powerfully enchanting, that unconsciously he would listen and smile, and become terrified, and even fall sick unto death.“
„Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.“
„You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.“
„Christianity – and that is its greatest merit – has somewhat mitigated that brutal Germanic love of war, but it could not destroy it. Should that subduing talisman, the cross, be shattered, the frenzied madness of the ancient warriors, that insane Berserk rage of which Nordic bards have spoken and sung so often, will once more burst into flame. This talisman is fragile, and the day will come when it will collapse miserably. Then the ancient stony gods will rise from the forgotten debris and rub the dust of a thousand years from their eyes, and finally Thor with his giant hammer will jump up and smash the Gothic cathedrals.“
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