Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Walther von der Vogelweide

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Last updated on September 19, 2024.

Walther von der Vogelweide was a Minnesänger who composed and performed love-songs and political songs ("Sprüche") in Middle High German. Walther has been described as the greatest German lyrical poet before Goethe; his hundred or so love-songs are widely regarded as the pinnacle of Minnesang, the medieval German love lyric, and his innovations breathed new life into the tradition of courtly love. He was also the first political poet to write in German, with a considerable body of encomium, satire, invective, and moralising.

German - Poet | 1170 - 1230

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For five hundred years after Walther's death - until Goethe - no German lyric poet was his equal.

Walther von der Vogelweide

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

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.

Walther von der Vogelweide

Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Walther von der Vogelweide

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