Walther von der Vogelweide Quotes

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He who has a good woman's love is ashamed of every ill deed.

Walther von der Vogelweide
The sun no longer shows
His face; and treason sows
His secret seeds that no man can detect;
Fathers by their children are undone;
The brother would the brother cheat;
And the cowled monk is a deceit...
Might is right, and justice there is none.

Walther von der Vogelweide
Alas, where have they gone to, year on weary year?
Was it all a dream then, my life's, my love's career?

Walther von der Vogelweide
Under the lime tree
On the heather,
Where we had shared a place of rest,
Still you may find there,
Lovely together,
Flowers crushed and grass down-pressed.

Walther von der Vogelweide
Love makes a woman beautiful – but beauty does not have such power, beauty cannot make a woman worthy of love.

Walther von der Vogelweide
To me, the gate of paradise is shut.
I stand an orphan there, locked out;
however much I knock, it's all in vain.

Walther von der Vogelweide
Now the summer came to pass And flowers through the grass Joyously sprang, While all the tribes of birds sang.

Walther von der Vogelweide
That which they call love, it is nothing except the pain of longing.

Walther von der Vogelweide
But sadly, I can see no way
for goods and worldly reputation
and the grace of God
to join together in one heart.

Walther von der Vogelweide
Those who drown out the good singing –
there's many more of them
than those who want to hear it.

Walther von der Vogelweide
The world is beautiful outside: white, green, and red; but inside it is black and dark as death.

Walther von der Vogelweide
For many call Thee Father, who
Will not own me as brother too.

Walther von der Vogelweide