“Who has not watched a mother stroke her child's cheek or kiss her child in a certain way and felt a nervous shudder at the possessive outrage done to a free solitary human soul?” WayHumansChildrenSoulDoneMotherCertainFeltFamilyKissingNervousCheeksSolitaryStrokesHuman SoulOutragePossessive Author:John Cowper Powys
“Not the wretchedest man or woman but has a deep secretive mythology with which to wrestle with the material world and to overcome it and pass beyond it. Not the wretchedest human being but has his share in the creative energy that builds the world. We are all creators. We all create a mythological world of our own out of certain shapeless materials.” MenWorldHumansCertainEnergyHuman BeingsCreativeShareMaterialsOvercomingCreatorMythologyMaterial WorldSecretiveCreative Energy Author:John Cowper Powys
“To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of Shakespeare, of the luminous wisdom of Goethe, actually passes into the personality of the reader; so that in contact with the chaos of ordinary life certain free and flowing outlines emerge, like the forms of some classic picture, endowing both people and things with a grandeur beyond what is visible to the superficial glance.” PeopleMeanDoeBookFormCertainImaginationPersonalityReaderTerribleOrdinaryChaosInsightContactClassicVisibleSuperficialGlancesGrandeurOutlinesLuminousOrdinary LifeGreat BookDostoyevsky Author:John Cowper Powys
