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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It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine (Deity) compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state.
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Now - find God's dream for your life and go all out for it!
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.
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I'm bisexual.
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A black, a Puerto Rican and a Mexican are in a car. Who's driving? The police.
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When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour. I try to eat at all the weird places, the obscure barbecue joints, burger places. There are a few spots in L.A. that I'm obsessed with - one of them is the Taco Zone taco truck on Alvarado. There are secret off-menu items that are amazing.
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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.
