Wednesday, July 14, 2010

the proud surge of its waves




He stirs up the sea of our hearts so that the proud surge of its waves often causes us hot pains, but this is only the miraculous tide through whose strange movement our sickness and misfortune abate.

- Johan Joachim Winkelmann
in Walter Benjamin, The Origin of German Tragic Drama


- Image : Alexander Rischer - CAPUT CORVI