| Thus it is the German language that links the German people in a privileged way to, as Heidegger sees it, the genesis of European thought and to a pre-technological world-view in which bringing-forth as poiesis is dominant. |
| One might think, then, that saving the earth, safeguarding in its first dimension, is a matter of leaving nature to its own devices, of actively ensuring that the conditions obtain for unaided natural poiesis. |
| On this side of the bottleneck of metaphysics, gratuitous Orphism and tautology, the idea of poiesis, or creativity, abides as critical participation in one's own time. |
| Is water a powerful influence on your writing, in terms of poiesis? |
| Its opposite, poiesis, is pure invention and not the imitation of reality. |
