To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs; Heine was nearer the mark when he found in Him the divine Aristophanes. God's laughter is sometimes very coarse and unfit for polite ears; He is not satisfied with being Molière, He must needs also be Aristophanes and Rabelais.
Bio: Johann Ludwig Wilhelm Müller was a German lyric poet, most well known as the author of Die Schöne Müllerin and Winterreise, the famous Franz Schubert song cycles.
