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"Peg o' my heart I'll love you don't let us part. I love you I always knew it would be you Since I heard your lilting laughter It's your Irish heart I'm after Peg o' my heart."
"On State Street, that great street, I just want to say They do things they don't do on Broadway They have the time, the time of their life I saw a man, he danced with his wife In Chicago, Chicago my home town."
"Jâ leider desn mac niht gesîn, daz guot und weltlich êre und gotes hulde mêre zesamene in ein herze komen."
"Mir ist verspert der sælden tor dâ stên ich als ein weise vor mich hilfet niht swaz ich dar an geklopfe."
"Die daz rehte singen stoerent, der ist ungelîche mêre danne die ez gerne hoerent."
"Owê war sint verswunden alliu mîniu jâr ist mir mîn leben getroumet oder ist ez wâr."
"Diu welt ist ûzen schoene wîz grüen unde rôt und innân swarzer varwe vinster sam der tôt."
""Sît willekomen herre wirt" dem gruoze muoz ich swîgen, "sît willekomen herre gast", sô muoz ich sprechen oder nîgen. wirt unde heim sint zwêne unschamelîche namen, gast unde herberge muoz man sich dicke schamen."
"Dich heizet vater maniger vil, swer mîn ze bruoder niht enwil."
"Wer kan den hêrren von dem knehte gescheiden, swâ er ir gebeine blôzez fünde, het er ir joch lebender künde?"
"Daz si da heizent minne, Deis niewan senede leit."
"Swer guotes wîbes minne hât, der schamt sich aller missetât."
"He is equally great whether his theme be religion, patriotism, or love. As a political poet he is one of the greatest of all time."
"He has no equal in medieval German lyric poetry and perhaps not even in European lyric poetry of the Middle Ages."
"For five hundred years after Walther's death – until Goethe – no German lyric poet was his equal."
"The greatest of the Minnesinger, all of whom he surpasses both in the range and in the humanity of his poetry."
"He was known to his countrymen as the Nightingale, but his own sweet-sounding name of Bird's-meadow (Vogelweide) suggests even more directly the pure, true, flute-like strain which he poured into Europe’s choir of voices."
"The mouthpiece of the half-inarticulate, all-suggesting music that is at once the very soul and the inseparable garment of romance."
"Under der linden an der heide, dâ unser zweier bette was, dâ mugt ir vinden schône beide gebrochen bluomen unde gras."
"Liebe machet schoene wîp: desn mac diu schoene niht getuon, sin machet niemer lieben lîp."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.