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

Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor.

A man's first bond is that which ties him into the national community.

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

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.

The threat to man does not come in the first instance from the potentially lethal machines and apparatus of technology. The actual threat has already affected man in his essence. The rule of Enframing threatens man with the possibility that it could be denied to him to enter into a more original revealing and hence to experience the call of a more primal truth

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