What are poet's for?

I think Heidegger's point was that in destitute times, poets are able to help people come back to a more real, raw state. Sometimes I think poets just dance around what they are trying to say and I just wish they would get to the point...But really, are minds don't just get to the point. There's a lot of thinking, both conscious and subconscious that goes on before we make decisions or come to conclusions about things. In this sense, I think poets depict most honestly how people really work/think. So in times when people are lost, poets help to guide people back to a more raw state where they're not trying to filter their thoughts and feelings and not trying to figure it all out before articulating what they think. Poets help take us through the process of having all the miscellaneous and seemingly irrelevant or extraneous thoughts about things, and amidst the mess of thoughts and ideas, is a central point or a final decision or opinion. When people are in a state of destitution, sometimes they need someone to show them how to do this again. Poets can be those people.