Dichten

A blog of Poetry: to say, to speak, the verb for to make poetry, dichten. Poetry is the condition for the possibility of philosophy, the condition that fulfills its own condition, a sort of causa sui that doesn't leap but grounds in its disdain for the question of ground. This blog hates itself in its metaphysics, but achieves the height of nothing...

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"In addition to the choice of words, positioning of words, and the sequencing of words, it is above all the entire overall resonance of the poetic telling that "expresses" the so-called meaning. Yet this overall resonance of the telling is not simply the result of the positioning of words and arranging of lines, but rather the reverse: the overall resonance of the telling is the initial, creative resonance that first intimates the language; it is the origin not only for the arranging and positioning of the words, but also for the choice of words, an origin that in its resonance constantly anticipates the use of words. This overall resonance of the telling, however, is from the outset determined by the fundamental attunement of the poetry, which takes form within the inner outline of the whole. The fundamental attunement for its part grows out of the particular metaphysical locale of the poetry in question." Martin Heidegger, Hoelderlin's hymns "Germania" and "The Rhine", translated by William McNeill, not yet published.

Friday, August 27, 2004

Escape Nothing

Nothing is but thought
but thought makes nothing
but itself be.

Thought could make others
doubtably be, or be
despite doubtably,
make nothing not even be.

But thought seemingly
something, nothing
being everything else,
cannot escape even
this grasp.

Even though it is all
that is indubitable,
in itself or in its
insignificance it
becomes nothing.

But is to make itself
into nothing
to say that it is not
there to make itself?

It can think itself,
delete itself,
reach the furthest
bounds of existence:

It is the greatest
of all things
the only thing
that can both create

and escape nothing.

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