Nevertheless there remains what his saying has established and left for us to keep in our thoughts.

Much is left to consider, that is, to experience thoughtfully. Next for us to consider is:

First of all, to think about the unpoetic aspects of our world sojourn as such, experiencing the mechanization of man as his fate instead of dismissing it as merely arbitrary and an infatuation. Further, it calls for us to realize that there is no measure on this earth, but rather that the earth can give no measure when it is quantified on a planetary scale, that the earth is carried away in the lack of measure.

In the midst of the unpoetic it is insufficient for the poetic to think of the way out in the apparently equalizing dialectics.

We still rush past the mystery of the “not” and of what is not.

We do not yet experience clearly enough what is suggested to us in the withdrawal because we do not yet know the withdrawal itself. We do not yet know the poetic in the unpoetic.


Martin Heidegger - Man's Dwelling

GA 13: 220



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Translated by César A. Cruz. Original PDF.
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