21.“What are poets for?” he asks in his essay of the same name. They are, he reasons at excruciating length, for articulating the truth that man “dwells poetically on this earth”, which is, for Heidegger, “to find in the simple and homely things of every-day experience the divine and the holy”. Thus the poet makes man aware of this dwelling by allowing him – or, hopefully, her – to conceptualise the divine. The poet is as important as the philosopher in revealing the truth of Dasein.