Charles Baudelaire on Creativity as an Evocation of one’s Childhood Mind

I found the following quote online, after it was mentioned in a biography I am reading (not about Baudelaire).

I have not yet seen the quote in context, so am not sure that it supports my posts of March 18^th and 19^th. Maybe it is only referring to childhood experience, as it says, and not to the cognitive talents (imaginary companions, identity assumption, paracosm) that some children use to enhance their experience, and which adult novelists may employ.

After I see the quote in context, I’ll tell you in a follow-up post. Unless you already know the answer and wish to submit a comment now.

“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.”

    ― Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), The Painter Of Modern Life And Other Essays