Only the poet poetically determines poetry and its relation to thinking and this latter itself.
Only the thinker thoughtfully determines thinking and its relation to poetizing and this latter itself.
The poet and the thinker separate historically in their encounter, which, as historical, in each case has its unique fate.
Now is occurring the history of the passing by of the most extreme abandonment by being and the history of the preparation of the other beginning. The afternoon of the evening of the West.
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Poetizing is remembrance [An-denken, lit., “thinking toward”].
Thinking is poetizing away from [Weg-dichten], de-founding.
Thus the two are separated in the extreme, but both are also appropriated
out of the history of beyng.
Poetizing away from? Through thinking, to bring into the abyss of
the departure.
Not simply non-founding,
not simply counter-founding,
but rather away from and outside the domain of founding, but in that
manner still related (the mountains)—otherwise in the submissiveness
to the inceptuality.
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Thoughtful thinking—not to reject, but to find sufficiency in the surplus of the questioning of what is question-worthy; therein, however, also a renunciation of the “image” and of being immediately heard.
372. The thanking of the renunciation is thoughtful thanking
The renunciation of the holy out of the necessity of the appreciation of what is question-worthy. The renunciation stems from the experience of the proper domain of the fullness of this dignity.
This thanking is not a sheer rejection; it has its “yes” and its determination out of the voice of the dignity of beyng itself and of the event of the twisting free of beyng.
To thank is to pass by ungrounded being and to pass by the power of beings.
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Thanking is thinking:
1. thanking as poetic thinking.