Alas for the sight where, after dire grief, one sees a sadd… - Gottfried von Strassburg

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Alas for the sight where, after dire grief, one sees a sadder sight with grief more dire!

Gottfried von Strassburg

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Gottfried von Strassburg (died c. 1210) was a German poet known mainly for his unfinished Tristan, a romance based on the Tristan of Thomas of Britain. Gottfried's poem was the main literary source of Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde.

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Love is so blissful a thing, so blessed an endeavour, that apart from its teaching none attains worth or reputation.

Ez ist ein armer trügesite,
der vriunden alsô liuget,
daz er sich selben triuget.

If one cannot overlook a hurt, many hurts will grow from it. It is a fatal style of living.

Alas for the sight where, after dire grief, one sees a sadder sight with grief more dire! - Gottfried von Strassburg

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