Often the terms death of God, end of poetics and desecration are associated with the idea of Modernity that builds a new explanation of the world and, in turn, bears the idea of overcoming a mythical time. Indeed, the relationship between fictional poetics and secularization is ambiguous and ambivalent. If secularization operates an apparent marginalization of the poetic and the myth-theological (considering its provisional enunciation capacity), it can also be conceived as a way of appropriating both in an attempt to heal and overcome their enunciative deficiencies. The Cartesian project excluded the provisionality of metaphorical language as a constructor of an image of the world in order to put in place the unambiguity of an instrumental language. If such a project of overcoming went towards its realization, what did Heidegger s reflection consist of, contemporarily, appropriating Holderlin s poetry: what are poets for?. Its conclusion requires an indissolubility between the poetic and the theological as agents not captured by technical-scientific reason. Can poetics, as a metaphorical language, say something about the human or about God? Does it have the right tools to support an image of the world? Here, the problematic of Theopoetics emerges, either seen as a fictional appropriation of the concept of God, or conceived as a creative narrative power of the divine, as a possibility to overcome the hyperspecialization so common in Modernity. The attempts to reflect on the human and its place in the world, often in a context of supposedly accomplished secularity, clash with the very limits of technical-scientific reason. Could the space of poetics - and, with it, the myth-theological - overcome a normativity? What is at stake goes beyond a mere poetic virtuality to launch itself into political effectiveness. Heidegger s reflection provides new perspectives for a substantial appreciation and understanding of the heuristic role played by the universe of fiction. Invigorating, or reestablishing, the sense of poiesis, the reflections of Nietzsche and Heidegger seem to corroborate to define the space that the (fictionalist) poet occupies in society, reversing the Platonic ethical status. When affirming that the human has the hidden desire to make life from literature (in a kind of appropriation of Heideggerian Dasein), the writer José Saramago seems to offer paths for an understanding of poetry not only as a creator of new values, but as the very form to enunciate the human as its own self-awareness and in the knowledge of otherness. Poets in destitute times, in addition to indicating a return to mythical times, provide the propitious field for the breakdown of dogmatization that petrifies myth in categorical terms and rescues, as Hans Blumenberg says, its metaphorical liberality. Allowing the repopulation of the world by the gods makes the poet the quintessential Platonic legislator who, rejecting the establishment of a totalitarian perspective, seeks to embrace human existence in a profusion of possibilities and broadens the horizon of understanding poetry / fiction as a heuristic instrument, capable of thinking about solutions and breaking with the absolute reality statute, of which inclusively the concept of God has become hostage.