Through poetry, time and space become determined as history and place. Hölderlin poetizes this destiny as futural origin in his river poems. The river poetically says Being's appropriation. As the appropriating event, Being is self-appropriation. Being becomes Being as being; that is, entities and the remembrance that Being is not an entity or wholly present in the entities. As such, concealed Being becomes present, differentiated, determined and meaningful through its own contrary element. Appropriation is therefore a journey through the strange as the essence of dwelling. Dwelling must be learned again, according to Heidegger. Learning to dwell requires first a homecoming, a becoming home of a people through poetry in what is properly their own.