Benjamin/origin

Famous quotes containing the words benjamin and/or origin:

“Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)

“In the woods in a winter afternoon one will see as readily the origin of the stained glass window, with which Gothic cathedrals are adorned, in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)