If indeed story can bring a presence to us, it is always a new presence and never a re- presence, always a new presentation and never a representation, always our own presence and never the presence of an other. Story does not have the power to deliver to us the presence of the other. For a teacher in a room full of children, and in a world where living WITH each other may be our only hope for survival, this continuing orientation may be crucial. Now, I find Heidegger's indeterminacy of language my only refuge. The stillness at the heart of language calls to mortals through the poem, which is the only form of speaking in which primal calling is any longer to be heard.
Poetry is the saying of the unconcealdness of beings.
Actual language at any given moment is the happening of this saying, in which a people's world historically arises for it and the earth is preserved as that which remains closed. Projective saying is saying which, in preparing the sayable, simultaneously brings the unsayable as such into a world. A journey toward a shared horizon. Masters, University of Alberta. Martin Heidegger, Basic Writings.