Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed, an architectural one, where it is constructed, and finally a textile one, where it is woven. Walter Benjamin More Quotes by Walter Benjamin More Quotes From Walter Benjamin He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say. Walter Benjamin dexterity events may If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. Walter Benjamin eggs dream sleep All disgust is originally disgust at touching. Walter Benjamin disgusting touching The present, which, as a model of Messianic time, comprises the entire history of mankind in an enormous abridgment, coincides with the stature which the history of mankind has in the universe. Walter Benjamin enormous models mankind Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance. Walter Benjamin Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred. Walter Benjamin It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us. Walter Benjamin us without only hope