Everyday Language is a Forgotten Poem
Heidegger: Beyond Reactionary and Progressive
Heidegger writes:
“Poetry proper is never merely a higher mode of everyday language. It is rather the reverse: everyday language is a forgotten and therefore used-up poem, from which there hardly resounds a call any longer.”
What does it mean?
Damon Linker renders it this way:
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