Charles Baudelaire Childhood Quotations

Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered by will, a childhood how equipped for self-expression with an adult's capacities.

A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will.

Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.

Genius is childhood recalled at will.

What I have always found most beautiful in the theatre, in my childhood, and still today, is lustre--a beautiful object, luminous, crystalline, complex, circular, symmetrical. However, I do not absolutely deny the value of dramatic literature. Only, I should like the actors to be mounted on high pattens, to wear masks more expressive than the human face, and to speak through megaphones.

Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.