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 HEIDEGGERQuestioning is the piety of thought.
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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Nature has no history.
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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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We do not have any clear, common and simple relation to reality and to ourselves. That is the big problem of the Western world.
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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Only a god can save us.
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