Occupation: Poet Birth: December 13, 1797 Death: February 17, 1856
The gazelles so gentle and clever Skip lightly in frolicsome mood..
The lotus flower is troubled At the sun's resplendent light; With sunken head and sadly She dreamily waits for the night..
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle..
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 Wh….
There are more fools in the world than there are people..
Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too..
A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks..
Atheism is the last word of theism.
What Christian love cannot do is effected by a common hatred..
Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent..
True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary..
The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang, The apple into blossom burst, To life the grass and violets sprang..
Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved..
Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet..
Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle..
So we keep asking, over and over,Until a handful of earthStops our mouths -But is that an answer?.
He only profits from praise who values criticism..
Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. For it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon, between spirit and matter..
This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end.
Perhaps already I am dead, And these perhaps are phantoms vain; - These motley phantasies that pass At night through my disordered brain. Perhaps wit….
Silence can be defined as conversation with an Englishman.