HEIDEGGER, M
Art, as the letting happen of the advent of the truth, is essentially poetry
Art as letting-happend-of the advent-of the truth is poetry.
The work is beautiful in so far as in this work, truth OCCURS as unconcealedness.
The Greeks called the unconcealedness of being “alétheia”. We say “truth” and think little enough in using this word. If there occurs in the work a disclosure of a particular being, disclosing what and how it is, then there is here an occurring, a happening of truth at work.
Truth, as the clearing and concealing of what is, happens in being composed, as a poet composes a poem. All Art, as the letting happen of the advent of the truth of what is, is, as such, essentially poetry. The nature of art, on which both the art and the artist depend, is the setting-itself-into-work of truth. It is due to art’s poetic nature that, in the midst of what is, art breaks open an open place, in whose openness everything is other than usual.