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.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERI know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.
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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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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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The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Only he who already understands can listen.
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Language speaks and not the human.
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Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Everything has always already been said. And yet this “same” possesses, as its inner truth, the inexhaustable wealth of what is on every day as if that day were its first.
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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Only a god can save us.
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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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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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