The literary works of Hölderlin are marked by the aspiration for originality, which should not be characterized as "novelty" but as creation drawing its source from the poet's intimacy. This intimacy, which correlates with the "depth of heart and mind," must nevertheless be made accessible. Indeed, if intimacy is neither a confinement within oneself nor an isolation, it is essentially the mode of being of one who stands in a relationship of sympathy with "all living things", and where the "Self" merges with the Whole of Nature. Hölderlin, following Rousseau and Schiller, understands the history of scientific and technicist civilization as a process of losing this intimacy, that is, as a process of expulsion from the Whole of Nature, and consequently, a process of isolation. The poet who aspires to create original works must, therefore, return to a point before this history to rediscover the sense of intimacy and unveil what Nature now keeps secret.