“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 spirit of poetry; and above all to use its symbols, which are its spiritual essence, giving them a new connotation, a fresh meaning.” WayGivingUsePastSpiritualSpiritTurnsMistakeEssenceTreatsAngrySymbolsOur PastNegationConnotationWholesale Author:John Cowper Powys
“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
“The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways.” KnowsWayAliensInterfere Author:John Cowper Powys
