Abstract

Thought and poetry are twinned. Poetry seeks to create order, aiming at understanding, as does the other wisdom-seeking speaking that becomes ›philosophy‹. Gradually both efforts diverge, while keeping their orientation, albeit in increasingly different formalizations, which also leads to conflict. In doing so each achieves its own. The more that the concrete-immediate analytical approach comes to the fore in philosophy, and exclusivity and unambiguity are called for, the more poetry becomes significant as a thinking space of the indistinctimmanent, non-exclusively ambiguous. Which is precisely why philosophy and poetry need each other, to open and expand that thinking space, to grasp and deepen what is said.