Yukio Mishima on his writing style:
"My ideal style would have had the grave beauty of polished wood in the entrance hall of a samurai mansion on a winter's day."
Dude was really messed up. This is how you end up committing seppuku and inspiring generations of malcontents into general dickishness.
Me, I want my writing to have the low-gravitas feel of a McMansion.
What I note is my own instinctive deference to his aesthetic sensibility without noticing it to be a simple manifestation of his reactionary longing. "Samurai mansion" indeed. Old polished wood is old polished wood.