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

“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.”

“To make of "the truth" a goddess amounts to turning the mere notion of something, namely the concept of the essence of truth, into a "personality.”

“Since time itself is not movement, it must somehow have to do with movement.Time is initially encountered in those entities which are changeable, change is in time. How is time exhibited in this way of encountering it, namely, as that within which things change? Does it here give itself as itself in what it is? Can an axplacation of time starts here guarantee that time will thereby provide as it were the fundamental phenomena that determine it in its own being?”

“The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.”

“Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.”

“The thoughtless habit of using the words “existence” and “exist” as designations for being is one more indication of our estrangement both from being and from a radical, forceful, and definite exegesis of being.”