Abstract

This article aims to follow the teaching of Martin Heidegger about the relationship enterteined between poetry and history and the nexus that both phenomena entertain with language. Our aim is to understand the real extent that the philosopher assigns to language as the source of guidance for thought. Hölderlin’s poetry is the thread Heidegger offers for his own philosophical research to think of the meaning of what concerns History essentially, as well as poetry and language. Taking this thread means to rise to a perspective able to see the structure that governs all that existence is originally connected, determining it in a tacit, incessant imperious way. We assume this is in fact considering that for both philosopher and poet, poetry is the institution of Being housed in the word, and the historical foundation of people.