Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself.
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Only he who already understands can listen.
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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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Language speaks and not the human.
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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Only a god can save us.
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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Language is the house of Being.
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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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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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Man stares at what the explosion of the atom bomb could bring with it. He does not see that the atom bomb and its explosion are the mere final emission of what has long since taken place, has already happened.
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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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