Manas Shukla

“They loved each other, but neither
Would venture to speak thereof;
They glared at each other like enemies
And wanted to die of love.”
― Heinrich Heine

“For the Greeks, beauty is truth; for the Hebrews, truth is beauty.”
― Heinrich Heine

“Like a great poet, nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the utmost economy of means: nothing but sun, trees, flowers, water, and love. Of course, if the latter is absent from the beholder’s heart, the whole landscape will be an unpleasing sight; then the sun is merely so many miles in diameter, and the trees provide good firewood, and the flowers are classified according to the number of their stamens, and the water is wet.”
― Heinrich Heine, Die Harzreise

“When your weakness are your strengths, you cry.”
― John Fante, The Brotherhood of the Grape