Dunkelheit

"This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy. This is why, in Hölderlin's language, the world's night is the holy night."

Heidegger here is stating the need for a poet in the times of destitution. They break away from the objective molds of human logic and trace spiritual matters in their true form. The poet, then, flourishes from the decay and loss of the world.

This is a definite possibility. The idea of divinity found when at the darkest of times is found in poems, as he mentions, but also in songs of worship. "O Holy Night" gives the line "Long lay the world in sin and error pinning." As the song progresses, Christ comes back and redeems. In Scripture, too, Romans 5:20 speaks of grace abounding even more when sin increases.

The poet serves as a beacon of hope by becoming an intercession for the people when they've become numbed by the growing cake of mundaneness they have built from hyper-analyzation.

Ad augusta per angusta,

Will Drake

P.S. Commented on Autumn's Jabberwocky