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..."