We should live totally in the face of the night and of the Evil.

A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.

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

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control

The world, in resting upon the earth, strives to surmount it. As self-opening it cannot endure anything closed. The earth, however, as sheltering and concealing, tends always to draw the world into itself and keep it there

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.