After one has abandoned a belief in god, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption. *
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. **
* Wallace Stevens (2 October 1879 - 2 August 1955)
** Martin Heidegger (26 September 1889 - 26 May 1976)
** Martin Heidegger (26 September 1889 - 26 May 1976)
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