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Heine’s Visit to Goethe

By Heinrich Heine (1797–1856)

WHEN I visited him in Weimar, and stood before him, I involuntarily glanced at his side to see whether the eagle was not there with the lightning in his beak. I was nearly speaking Greek to him; but as I observed that he understood German, I stated to him in German that the plums on the road between Jena and Weimar were very good. I had for so many long winter nights thought over what lofty and profound things I would say to Goethe, if ever I saw him—and when I saw him at last, I said to him that the Saxon plums were very good! And Goethe smiled.

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