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 love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another.
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Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.
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The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.
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Thus, in a middle course between these heights and depths, they drifted through life rather than lived, the prey of aimless days and sterile memories, like wandering shadows that could have acquired substance only by consenting to root themselves in the solid earth of their distress.
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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.
