"The very function of poetry is to be as universal as possible,
and that demands that we rectify, simplify, enlarge our lived
experience, so that our words have properties that make them
on the whole comprehensible and lived anew—the reader must
understand that what is obscure in the poem proves that words
should not be reduced to a game of concepts, which in turn
would engender ideology, death. It is not a question of
understanding a poem concept by concept, for that would mean
tearing it away from its basis, which is not thought but
