The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.
Next to love is the desire for love.
Imagination...is the irrepressible revolutionist.
Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates.
A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.