Heinrich Heine - Sweet Quotes

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Perfumes are the feelings of flowers. And as the human heart feels most powerful emotions in the night, when it believes itself to be alone and unperceived, so also do the flowers, soft-minded, yet ashamed, appear to await for concealing darkness, that they may give themselves wholly up to their feelings, and breathe them out in sweet odors.

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Child, you are like a flower,
So sweet and pure and fair.
I look at you, and sadness Touches me with a prayer.

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With the rose the butterfly's deep in love,
A thousand times hovering round;
But round himself, all tender like gold,
The sun's sweet ray is hovering found.

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Oh what lies there are in kisses!
And their guile so well prepared!
Sweet the snaring is; but this is
Sweeter still, to be ensnared.

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Sweet May hath come to love us,
Flowers, trees, their blossoms don;
And through the blue heavens above us
The very clouds move on.

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Sweet May lies fresh before us, To life the young flowers leap, And through the Heaven's blue o'er us The rosy cloudlets sweep.

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Life is all too wondrous sweet, and the world is so beautifully bewildered; it is the dream of an intoxicated divinity...

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In blissful dream, in silent night, There came to me, with magic might, With magic might, my own sweet love, Into my little room above.

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And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow; Sweet voices mysteriously wailing Pierce through me as onward they go. They sail along, and a ringing Sweet melody rises on high; And when the swans begin singing, They presently must die.

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