Heinrich Heine Spring Quotations

The beauteous eyes of the spring's fair night With comfort are downward gazing.

I care little in the existence of a heaven or hell; self respect does not allow me to guide my acts with an eye toward heavenly salvation or hellish punishment. I pursue the good in life because it is beautiful and attracts me; and shun the bad because it is ugly and repulsive. All our acts should originate from the spring of unselfish love, whether there be a continuation after death or not.

The eyes of spring, so azure, Are peeping from the ground; They are the darling violets, That I in nosegays bound.

The spring's already at the gate With looks my care beguiling; The country round appeareth straight A flower-garden smiling.

Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time.

The great pulsation of nature beats too in my breast, and when I carol aloud, I am answered by a thousand-fold echo. I hear a thousand nightingales. Spring hath sent them to awaken Earth from her morning slumber, and Earth trembles with ecstasy, her flowers are hymns, which she sings in inspiration to the sun...