Dichten: June 2005

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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Name: irrefutable

Location: Chicago, United States

"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.

Saturday, June 04, 2005

Naked in the Thunderstorm

"Dasein is nothing other than exposure to the superlative power of beyng."

Extroversion is the way to escape being: is it an indifference? A willed ignorance? To one's own existence, that is. Yet we still are, simply ceasing it's recognition.

Dasein, this ubermensch, stands out, willingly or unwillingly subjugated to that unceasing and impenetrable domination; as if it is always the mystery (either hidden or seen as mystery), the concealed, that baffles and haunts us: we cannot escape its power as it is in us and around us.

The superlative question: will we learn to live together, as One, to accept differences and co-exist in peace before we ruin the earth and can't live on this beautiful planet anymore?

I'll continue this later: the next poem and commentary is truly enlightening, please read on. I really didn't want to cover it up, but this is important!