or the hearer has a personal emotional response. 4. The fact that something is a work of art does not make it sacred. Heidegger in What Is Philosophy? came finally to the view that there are small beings, namely people, who verbalize and therefore we can hope that Being has some meaning. His great cry at the end of this book is to listen to the poet. Heidegger is not saying that we should listen to the content of what the poets say, because one can find two different poets who