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 HEIDEGGERHe who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Everything 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.
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Our thinking today is charged with the task to think what the Greeks have thought in an even more Greek manner.
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The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Immersing ourselves in art and the immeasurable through being allows us a more truthful experience of the world.
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I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.
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Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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To dwell is to garden.
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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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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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