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Bernart de Ventadorn Quotes

d. 1190 France

Bernart de Ventadorn (or Bernard de Ventadour) (c. [[1130]/1140] – c. 1190/1200) was a Provençal troubadour His song "Can vei la lauzeta mover" is one of the best-known works of Occitan literature

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This is not love, such has only its name and semblance, which loves no thing unless it gains from it.

D'aisso's fa be femna parer
Ma domna, per qu'e·lh o retrai,
Car no vol so c'om deu voler,
E so c'om li deveda, fai.

But true love comes, not so lightly
Without fear and with no doubting,
We always fear that what we love may fail,
So I don't dare to stir myself to speak.

Chantars no pot gaire valer,
Si d'ins dal cor no mou lo chans!
Ni chans no pot dal cor mover,
Si no i es fin' amors coraus.

When I behold the skylark move in perfect joy towards its love the sun, when I behold the skylark, growing drunk with joy, forget the use of wings, so that it topples from the height of heavens, I envy the bird's fate.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bernart de Ventadorn (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.