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As quoted in Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1977) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 343
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When words leave off, music begins.

— Heinrich Heine

What It Means

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Heinrich Heine

About Heinrich Heine

Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (December 13, 1797 – February 17, 1856) was a journalist, an essayist, and one of the most significant German romantic poets. Jewish by birth, he converted to Lutheran Christianity as an adult.