John Cowper Powys

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John Cowper Powys

John Cowper Powys (1872 – 1963) was an English novelist, philosopher, lecturer, critic and poet born in Shirley, Derbyshire, where his father was vicar of the parish church. He is most well known for his novels.

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I felt that while I was listening to the rain

"All the nobler instincts of our race are born in solitude and suckled by silence. This solitude need be no far away wilderness in Nature; this silence need be no... Read more.