In-der-Blog-sein

Pomegranate Seeds says about Rodin, poetry, and philosophy:

The work of Rodin resonates with the great aspirations of the 19th century, the century of Darwin, Marx and Wagner. But in his equation, The Thinker = the Poet = the Creator, Rodin was way ahead of his time. The greatest German Philosopher of the 20th century, Martin Heidegger, only began to formulate this equation in the 1930's in such works as 'The Thinker as Poet', 'What are Poets For?' and '...Man Dwells Poetically'. Now it is a commonplace of humanities departments, repeated endlessly by such luminaries as Derrida, Lyotard, Richard Rorty and their followers.'

It's true that Socrates didn't want poets in his polis, but is the thinker = poet equation a 20th century invention?

In the Will To Power, in the 19th century:

It is through lyric poetry that Nietzsche feels he can convey a philosophy intended to make the individual think for themselves and thus to build and inform their perspectives. This poetry reveals a truth that emanates from our own intuition, the obstacle of morality is removed, and we find this poetry has the ability to reflect ourselves back at us, it is a confession of ourselves to ourselves.

Whereas Heidegger while discussing Nietzsche (II p. 208) thinks that:

[T]he thinker, in a way peculiar to him, rises to the rank of a poet, yet he remains eternally distinct from the poet, just as the poet in turn remains eternally distinct from the thinker.

  ¶ 8:46 PM