The writer who brings what has been thought to the inscription of language.
The peasant: who dwells within the task of thinking.
He prepares the soil appropriate for each kind; relinquishes the noble seed to it.
The writer [Schrift-steller] sets saying in plumb by initiating [stiftet] an inscription. The genuine writer only writes one script; the little that is left over can only serve that one. The writer in this sense is no author; the author makes a name for himself through copious productivity. Because his kind lives from that productivity (not only economically, but also in his essence), he lives for the passion to write as much as much as possible. Authors are the deviant form of writers who write too much. They are the writers who are none.
Wherever thinking comes to you easily, that is where you should suspect that you have gone astray; what comes to you with difficulty, keep it preserved as an aid.
The authentic outcome of a text one has written is always that one does not understand oneself. How is one to risk making oneself comprehensible to others? Well then? – by writing, for it brings to light the state of not-yet-understanding; but not publishing.
A philologist (of the common sort) understands as much as about language as an electrical engineer understands about nature. The professor confesses—his vanity.
Technology. — The most realistic part of today’s reality are the utopias of technology. This utopia is still to come. It is truly real in its essential form when no apparatuses are visible or perceivable anymore—that is the case when the production of energy in the highest possible form has been achieved and the energy still energizes the apparatus. Today one still writes about technology; the upcoming generation will immediately grow up into it. The older generations only see the surface aspects. Technology is a mode of the truth of beings and therefore cannot be captured in a cultural analysis or in any reflection of any kind, let alone can it be overcome in its essence. We are not yet prepared to think the essence of force [Kraft]. It will not succeed if we begin to speculate from the standpoint of technology.
Willing, that means: poor in the willing to will willing.
Poor: released in the experience of the world.