Wartet nur! [Only Wait!] in Poems for the Times ; also in Poems of Heinrich Heine: Three Hundred and Twenty-five Poems (1917) Selected and translated by Louis Untermeyer, p. 262
“In the fields with which we are concerned knowledge exists only in lightning flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterwards.”
— Walter Benjamin, book Arcades Project
Arcades Project (1927-1940)
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