The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERTruth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERWhen 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.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERA resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERBeing 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.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERHow should the new day arrive, if the night is withheld from it and everything is suppressed into the twilight of decisionlessness?
MARTIN HEIDEGGERQuestioning is the piety of thought.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERTell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERLanguage is the house of Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERWe do not have any clear, common and simple relation to reality and to ourselves. That is the big problem of the Western world.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe divinity of the gods must first eventuate before a god appears and before the naming word, which names “the gods”, can be heard.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERBecause it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERBeauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERLonging is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERAll the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERNothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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