Walther von der Vogelweide Professions : Poet Born : 1170 Died : 1230 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by 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 girl flower song 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 romance half soul For five hundred years after Walther's death - until Goethe - no German lyric poet was his equal. Walther von der Vogelweide hundred poet years Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors