Of all the designations that we humans can express, language is the highest and by far the first. Language is what initially and ultimately sends us signals about the essence of a thing. However, this does not mean in any case that language - in every sense of the word, which we have conceived randomly - provides us with the transparent essence of the thing once and for all, as is the case with a ready-to-use object. But the corresponding situation, in which a person truly hears the designation of language, is that saying which speaks within the element of poetry. The more poetic the work of a poet is, the freer his saying is, that is, more open and ready to accept the unforeseen, the more clearly it places its spoken word in the judgment of the listening that makes increasing efforts, the further away his spoken word is from the simple assertion, for which we only discuss whether it is correct or not.

Martin Heidegger