Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERAll the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Being the rational animal, man must be capable of thinking if he really wants to. Still, it may be that man wants to think, but cannot.
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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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Technology is a mode of revealing. Technology comes to presence in the realm where revealing and unconcealment take place, where aletheia, truth, happens.
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Our thinking today is charged with the task to think what the Greeks have thought in an even more Greek manner.
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No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world’s night utters the holy.
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When I spoke of “beauty”, I was thinking of Rilke’s notion that the beautiful is nothing but the beginning of the terrible, and of Hölderlin’s idea that the beautiful can unite extreme opposites in intimacy.
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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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