But in some curious way--I wonder will you understand me ?--his personality has suggested to me an entirely new manner in art, an entirely new mode of style.

I see things differently, I think of them differently.

I can now recreate life in a way that was hidden from me before.

'A dream of form in days of thought'-- who is it who says that?
I forget; but it is what Dorian Gray has been to me.

The merely visible presence of this lad--for he seems to me little more than a lad, though he is really over twenty--his merely visible presence--ah! I wonder can you realize all that that means?
Unconsciously he defines for me the lines of a fresh school, a school that is to have in it all the passion of the romantic spirit, all the perfection of the spirit that is Greek.