Walther von der Vogelweide quotes
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“Winter has caused damage everywhere: meadow and forest are all grey, where before you heard many sounds. If I could see the girls play ball on the street, then bird song would come back. If only I could sleep through the winter! When I am awake I feel only hatred that his power is so far and wide. God knows, he even fights with May; I picked flowers where there is now snow.”
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“For five hundred years after Walther's death - until Goethe - no German lyric poet was his equal.”
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“The mouthpiece of the half-inarticulate, all-suggesting music that is at once the very soul and the inseparable garment of romance.”
-- Walther von der Vogelweide
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“It's Friday and I'm ready to swing. Pick up my girls and hit the party scene.”
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“There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.”
Source : Adah Isaacs Menken (1868). “Infelicia [poems].”, p.72
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