Heidegger experienced something critical concerning his own time, which his speaking and the reception of his work could not escape either, namely the planetary uniform transformation of language and thought into mere calculation and information technology. Heidegger suspected that precisely the essential poetry and thought that are oriented towards and by the whole would lose the possibilities of having their say. However, within the uniformity of modern technology, a more primordial way of saying might be found. This saying is not representative, secure, exact, useful or informing, but rather hints and suggests. This saying is poetry. From Heidegger's perspective, to hear poetry in the midst of the present technological world means to hear the voice of Being.