There will always be something that we don't know. I look to be moved. I'm not asking you, you notice, any more about what it means, because you've said poetry isn't reducible, it's not a representation of anything, that it doesn't exactly mean or stand for something. Well, it can. I mean, it depends on what kind of poet you are.
Some poets pay very close attention to the world and try to represent it verbally.
Other poets try to create another world through which we see the so-called real world, and it's hoped that through the imaginary world that they create that we see the real world more clearly. I mean, I think what poetry finally does is to help us experience our world as intensely as possible. I look for astonishment. I look to be moved, to have my view of the world in which I live somewhat changed, enlarged. Well, I think, when I write, I try to resist reading my poems as long as possible, and type seems too final.