Martin Heidegger Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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The gods behold all righteous actions.
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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
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There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.
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If you care about the slaughter of the innocent, then for God's sake, speak up.
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I wouldn't be happy about being considered a love poet or an environmental - I don't want any of those tags.
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Malcolm X is a person who has inspired - he has been the muse of several generations of black cultural workers, artists, poets, playwrights.
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There is no inconsistency in God's commanding us not to take upon ourselves what belongs to Him alone. For to execute vengeance belongs to none but Him who is Lord of all; for when the powers of the world rightly accomplish this end, God himself does it who appointed them for the purpose.
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What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you.
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All God's plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them.
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God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God's ability, goodness and perfection exceed our infirmities and evil.
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There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
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We're either nothing or a God's regret.
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Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.
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Now - find God's dream for your life and go all out for it!
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A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.
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The Universal Law is impartial. It will give you anything you believe. It will throw you garbage or roses depending on the energy you put in. You are the one in charge, and you must accept that and stand alone. If you think God is coming down to fix things for you, forget it. God is out playing golf.
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It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.
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The only way out is to go through.
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You say, "Where goest Thou?" I cannot tell, And still go on. But if the way be straight I cannot go amiss: before me lies Dawn and the day: the night behind me: that Suffices me: I break the bounds: I see, And nothing more; believe and nothing less. My future is not one of my concerns.
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This was puzzling, as the standard textbook of psychiatry at the time stated that incest was extremely rare in the United States, occurring about once in every million women.8 Given that there were then only about one hundred million women living in the United States, I wondered how forty seven, almost half of them, had found their way to my office in the basement of the hospital. Furthermore, the textbook said, “There is little agreement about the role of father-daughter incest as a source of serious subsequent psychopathology.” My patients with incest histories were hardly free of “subsequent psychopathology”—they were profoundly depressed, confused, and often engaged in bizarrely self-harmful behaviors, such as cutting themselves with razor blades. The textbook went on to practically endorse incest, explaining that “such incestuous activity diminishes the subject’s chance of psychosis and allows for a better adjustment to the external world.
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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.
