To Start A Fire…
Truth establishes itself in the work.*
Truth essentially occurs only as the strife
between the clearing and concealing
in the opposition of world and earth.
Truth wills to be established in the work
as this strife of world and earth.
The strife is not to be resolved
in being brought forth for that purpose,
nor is it to be merely housed there;
the strife, on the contrary,
is started by it.
This being must therefore contain
within itself
the essential traits of the strife.
In the strife
the unity of world and earth
is won.
*”the work” means a work of art
—excerpt, The Origin of the Work of Art
by Martin Heidegger p. 187
