Transcendence Constitutes Selfhood.

Freedom Is Only To Be Found Where There Is Burden To Be Shouldered. In Creative Achievements This Burden Always Represents An Imperative And A Need That Weighs Heavily Upon Man’s Mood, So That He Comes To Be In A Mood Of Melancholy. All Creative Action Resides In A Mood Of Melancholy, Whether We Are Clearly Aware Of The Fact Or Not, Whether We Speak At Length About It Or Not. All Creative Action Resides In A Mood Of Melancholy, But This Is Not To Say That Everyone In A Melancholy Mood Is Creative.

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 Dwell Is To Garden.

The Mathematical Is That Evident Aspect Of Things Within Which We Are Always Already Moving And According To Which We Experience Them As Things At All, And As Such Things. The Mathematical Is This Fundamental Position We Take Toward Things By Which We Take Up Things As Already Given To Us, And As They Must And Should Be Given. Therefore, The Mathematical Is The Fundamental Presupposition Of The Knowledge Of Things.

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