truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.

Only if we are capable of dwelling, only then can we build

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable.

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.

I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil.