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Why is love beyond all measure of other human possibilities so rich and such a sweet burden for the one who has been struck by it? Because we change ourselves into that which we love, and yet remain ourselves.

Martin Heidegger

All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Poem Poet Writing
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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Animal Man Philosophy Thinking
Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Beautiful Philosophy Truth
Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
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Destiny God Important
The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Himself Thinking Wisdom
Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.
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Beginning Reason Thinking
He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Himself Moment Silence Talk
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death Philosophy
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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God Night Poet Sing Time World
Why is love beyond all measure of other human possibilities so rich and such a sweet burden for the one who has been struck by it? Because we change ourselves into that which we love, and yet remain ourselves.
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Beyond Change Human Love Measure Ourselves Possible Rich
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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Beautiful Beginning Myself
We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Existence God Human
Language speaks and not the human.
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Human Language Talk
The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Oneself Solitude
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Existence Logic

Why is love beyond all measure of other human possibilities so rich and such a sweet burden for the one who has been struck by it? Because we change ourselves into that which we love, and yet remain ourselves.

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Why is love beyond all measure of other human possibilities so rich and such a sweet burden for the one who has been struck by it? Because we change ourselves into that which we love, and yet remain ourselves.

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