Man is the animal who weeps and laughs - and writes. If the first Prometheus brought fire from heaven in a fennel-stalk, the last will take it back - in a book.
The strongest of all psychic forces in the world is unsatisfied desire. - John Cowper Powys
The strongest of all psychic forces in the world is unsatisfied desire.
- John Cowper Powys
Every day that we allow ourselves to take things for granted, every day that we allow some little physical infirmity or worldly worry to come between… - John Cowper Powys
Every day that we allow ourselves to take things for granted, every day that we allow some little physical infirmity or worldly worry to come between…
Love is always in the mood of believing in miracles. - John Cowper Powys
Love is always in the mood of believing in miracles.
What is the importance of human lives? Is it their continuing alive for so many years like animals in a menagerie? The value of a man cannot be judge… - John Cowper Powys
What is the importance of human lives? Is it their continuing alive for so many years like animals in a menagerie? The value of a man cannot be judge…
The influence of friendship upon culture differs from that of love, in that it assumes the basic idiosyncrasies of personal taste to be unalterable. … - John Cowper Powys
The influence of friendship upon culture differs from that of love, in that it assumes the basic idiosyncrasies of personal taste to be unalterable. …
A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens. - John Cowper Powys
A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.
The mistake we make is to turn upon our past with angry wholesale negation. … The way of wisdom is to treat it airily, lightly, wantonly, and in a sp… - John Cowper Powys
The mistake we make is to turn upon our past with angry wholesale negation. … The way of wisdom is to treat it airily, lightly, wantonly, and in a sp…
If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the good and the bad are mingled … - John Cowper Powys
If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the good and the bad are mingled …
To a real child anything will serve as a toy. - John Cowper Powys
To a real child anything will serve as a toy.
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