3 Quotes by Walther von der Vogelweide

Aller werdekeit ein füegerinnedaz sît ir zewâre, frowe Mâze.ein sælig man, der iuwer lêre hât!

The mouthpiece of the half-inarticulate, all-suggesting music that is at once the very soul and the inseparable garment of romance.

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