Genius is childhood recalled at will.
The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.
Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.
Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.
But a dandy can never be a vulgar man