The closeness-distance between thinking and poetizing in Martin Heidegger

Abstract

In Martin Heidegger's later works, one can notice a difficulty in distinguishing between two fundamental aspects of his thought: thinking and poetizing. The distinctions that the philosopher himself establishes are not very clear, for example: "even so, we cannot decide here definitively if poetry is, in itself, a form of thought or if thought is, in itself, a form of poetry "(Martín Heidegger, 2002, p. 140). The relationship between these two modes of saying is quite «dark», even more so when the same German philosopher makes it clear that these two «neighbors» are under a «luminous» difference. Therefore, the question arises: how clear is Heidegger himself the difference between thinking and poetizing when he recognizes a «darkness» in the relationship, but affirms a «luminosity» in the difference?