149. Hölderlin the Poet of Poets | 137
To interpret (to expound) the poetry does not mean making its essential polysemy unambiguous and bringing it into a single track but, rather, understanding the polysemy in its own legitimacy and configuration; better yet, it means learning to listen fully to the polysemic word and thus sharing in its peculiar inexhaustibility.
Whence arises the restrained polysemy?
Because it is being that is said.
This, however, is the simple.
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Poetry cannot be figured out from a content and summarized into an account.
Poetry has no “content” at all.
All this in no way says that understanding should be ceded to “feeling”; on the contrary: it is a matter of a knowing.
What does it indicate, then, if the (future) poets are founders (bestowing projectors of being), that Hölderlin is the poet of poets?
That he himself, in an inceptive sense that thinks far ahead, founds being.
And to say this is the will of its essence.
The poet from out of the essence of poetry. Poetry as the word of the holy.
This essence of poetry one-off—not pointing back into the earlier, also not holding up to the future as essential image.
Perhaps the final essence of poetry.
Perhaps the overcoming of all “art.”