If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story. ↗
So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse. ↗
The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life. ↗