If it was a means of arriving at unshakable conclusions it would have no interest. Its epistemological instability is the dynamo. At the moment I'm thinking of poetry as a means of saying and not saying at once which raises information above the level of mere facts. Logic and mathematics have suggested a great deal of formal structure. The world of information, whether history, science, medicine or whatever provides a referential pool which one can use to sketch.
Information carries all sorts of traces.
People, their manners and attitudes are faintly present, sometimes even in the syntax. If I write directly about more traditional themes, whatever way I read mainstream poetry, I find myself falling into certain prefabricated emotional configurations. The whole thing gets skewed. I find using information keeps my eye on the ball. I can stay with the nuances of what I'm actually feeling a lot better.