There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.

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

The relationship between man and space is none other than dwelling, strictly thought and spoken.

The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.

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

Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.

In the work of art the truth of an entity has set itself to work. ‘To set’ means here: to bring to a stand. Some particular entity, a pair of peasant shoes, comes in the work to stand in the light of its being. The being of the being comes into the steadiness of its shining. The nature of art would then be this: the truth of being setting itself to work.