Benjamin/origin

Famous quotes containing the words benjamin and/or origin:

“To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)

“The origin of storms is not in clouds,
our lightning strikes when the earth rises,
spillways free authentic power:
dead John Brown’s body walking from a tunnel
to break the armored and concluded mind.”
—Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)