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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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 HEIDEGGEREverything 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.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERWhy 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 HEIDEGGERTell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
MARTIN HEIDEGGEROverman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERAll the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
MARTIN HEIDEGGEROnly he who already understands can listen.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERImmersing ourselves in art and the immeasurable through being allows us a more truthful experience of the world.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERTechnology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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 HEIDEGGERBeauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERNothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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