This essay deals with the inner core of poetry as a disruptive endeavour from a critical perspective. Does a metaphorical use of language follow its own policy? And vice versa, does overbearance in politics relate to a special kind of poetical expression? Going back to the rhapsode’s call for inspiration in the Ilias, this paper investigates the extraordinary interrelationship between poets and their divine muses as a paradigm for dictatorship in its literal meaning: „dictare“ and „dichten“ not only share the same etymology, their interrelation is at the root of crucial questions concerning a policy of metaphors. Metaphors are inspiring, endowing, even theopoetical, but at the same time always in danger to break the rules they depend on – no less than ourselves