German Poet

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“The German language “speaks Being,” while all the others merely “speak of Being.””
—Martin Heidegger (1889–1976)

“The poet ... like the lover ... is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is under a certain compulsion to do so.”
—Babette Deutsch (1895–1982)