The Mazeppist

A Transgressive Transcendentalist manifesto.

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Part Irish, part Dervish, ecstatic humanist, critical Modernist, transgressive Transcendentalist.

Sunday, June 21, 2015

Poetry Is A Measuring


"Man's dwelling depends on an upward-looking measure-taking of the dimension, in which the sky belongs just as much as the earth...Measure-taking is no science. Measure-taking gauges the between, which brings the two, heaven and earth, to one another...The taking of measure is what is poetic in dwelling. Poetry is a measuring."

--Martin Heidegger, "...Poetically Man Dwells..."

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