105 Quotes by John Cowper Powys

Words cannot be remote from reality when they create reality.

The more money you give to people the better; and the less advice.

Nothing is against nature!” he retorted. “That’s the mistake people make; and it causes endless unhappiness.

It is strange how few people make more than a casual cult of enjoying Nature. And yet the earth is actually and literally the mother of us all. One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.

The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature’s ways.

If only – so he thought to himself later – Gerda’s face had been a little less flawless in its beauty, the beauty of her body would have remained as maddening to his senses as it was at the beginning. But the more he had seen of her the more beautiful her face had grown; until it had now reached that magical level of loveliness which absorbs with a kind of absoluteness the whole aesthetic sense, paralysing the erotic sensibility.