If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world then it has had its desired effect.
Love does not alter the beloved it alters itself.
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.
I wouldn't change a single thing because one change alters every moment that follows it.
To engage with art we have to be willing to be wrong venture outside our psychic comfort zones suspend disbelief and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.