Rajendra Prasad
John Cowper Powys (October 8 1872 - June 17 1963) bụ onye ode akwụkwọ Britain, onye na-ede uri, onye edemede, onye ọkà ihe ọmụma, onye nkatọ agụmagụ, onye anarchist na onye na-agụ akụkọ ndụ.
Okwu Ndị okwuru
[dezie]- Ndị ọchịchị anyị n'oge a, na ígwè ọrụ ha na ndị nkwusa ha, na-arụsi ọrụ ike n'itinye n'isi anyị echiche na-ezighị ezi bụ́ na ọrụ kama ịtụgharị uche bụ ihe dị ndụ.
- "Na Nchekwa nke Sensuality" (1930), p. 136
- Ọtụtụ n'ime ihe nkiri ndị na-egosi ọmịiko n'ihe fọrọ nke nta ka ọ bụrụ mmadụ nile bụ ihe nkiri nke onye ọ bụla na-ahụghị na onye ahụ a na-ekwu na-eleghara anya kpamkpam.
- A Glastonbury Romance" (1932; 1955) p. 849
- Mmadụ bụ anụmanụ na-akwa akwa na-achị ọchị - na-edekwa. Ọ bụrụ na Prometheus mbụ wetara ọkụ si n'eluigwe na fennel-stalk, nke ikpeazụ ga-eweghachi ya - "n'ime akwụkwọ".
- Ihe ụtọ nke akwụkwọ (1938), p. 17
- A na m agụ n'oge na-adịbeghị anya, nke ọma, oh ụdị nnukwu akwụkwọ na-atọ ụtọ Anarchist Literature nke ochie [Emma Goldman] zitere m onye bụ Prime Minister m & onye isi ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị onye ọkà ihe ọmụma! na kwa izu ana m enweta akwụkwọ anarchist site na Avenue A New York City yana 'Bulletin of Information' sitere na Anarchists nke Barcelona. Akwụkwọ nta nke ikpeazụ a ka m na-edobe nke ọma; n'ihi na ọ bụghị oke nchegbu banyere agha dị ka nnwale ha na Catalonia nke ịhazi ndụ ha na ahịrị Anarchist na iwepụ ọchịchị aka ike niile & nke 'Sovereign State'.
- Akwụkwọ ozi e degaara nwanne ya nwanyị (24 Septemba 1938), nke e bipụtara na The Letters of John Cowper Powys to Philippa Powys (1996), nke Anthony Head p. 106
- Ọ bụrụ na mgbe anyị dị iri isii, anyị amụtabeghị ihe njikọ nke ndụ mgbagwoju anya na ndụ na-emegiderịta onwe anyị bụ, na otu esi ejikọta ihe ọma na ihe ọjọọ n'omume ọ bụla anyị na-eme, na ihe onye nnabata anyị nwanyị nke Eziokwu bụ, anyị emebeghị agadi maka ọtụtụ ebumnuche.
- The Art of Growing Old (1944), p. 13
"Ọhụụ mgbagwoju anya" (1920)
[dezie]- Azịza m nye ajụjụ a bụ "Gịnị mere anyị ji eme nkà ihe ọmụma?" bụ dị ka ndị a. Anyị na-eji nkà ihe ọmụma eme ihe n'ihi otu ihe ahụ mere anyị ji na-agagharị na-ekwu okwu na-achị ọchị na-eri nri na ịhụnanya. N'ikwu ya n'ụzọ ọzọ, anyị na-eme nkà ihe ọmụma n'ihi na mmadụ bụ anụmanụ nke nkà ihe ọmụma… Anyị nwere ike inwe obi abụọ dịka masịrị anyị. Obi abụọ anyị na-enwe bụ nkwupụta nke nkà ihe ọmụma doro anya.
- Isi I
- Otu n'ime eziokwu gbasara mmụọ na-achọsi ike, n'ihe metụtara ụzọ dị iche iche nke uche dị iche iche si arụ ọrụ, bụ eziokwu na mgbe n'ụbọchị ndị a, anyị na-achọ visualize, n'ụzọ ụfọdụ, echiche kachasị anyị banyere ndụ, ihe oyiyi ndị a na-akpọ elu bụ geometrical ma ọ bụ kemikal kama ịbụ anthropomorphic. Ọ ga-abụ na ọbụna ndị kasị ezi uche na ezi uche n'etiti anyị ozugbo ọ malitere nkà ihe ọmụma na ihe ọ bụla na-amanye site mkpa nke ihe na-etolite n'uche ụfọdụ na-edochaghị anya ihe osise na-aza ya echiche nke eluigwe na ala.
Ọtụtụ ndị na-eche echiche na-ahụ eluigwe na ụwa nke echiche echiche ha dị ka ihe dị nnọọ iche na mbara igwe n'ezie nke anyị niile na-ele anya. Ọbụna ndị uche kacha nwee ezi uche bụ ndị na-achọta eluigwe na ụwa na "echiche dị ọcha" na-akwali megide uche ezi uche ha ịhụ "echiche dị ọcha" a na inye ya ahụ na ọdịdị na ọdịdị na mmegharị ahụ."- Isi I
- Ha bụ ma ọ dịkarịa ala ihe akaebe nke akụkụ a na-apụghị ịgbagha agbagha, na ịrụ ọrụ nke ọhụụ anyị dị mgbagwoju anya, site na mmetụta dị ka akụkụ nke nyocha. Ma ha nwere mmasị ọzọ. Ha bụ mkpughe na-enwupụta ìhè nke agwa dị n'ime ya na nhụsianya nke onwe nke onye mkpụrụ obi nke na-eme nkà ihe ọmụma. M na-eche na a ukwuu ọtụtụ uche ihe anyị na-akpọ "eluigwe na ala" na-egosi onwe ya dị ka a colossal okirikiri, na-enweghị ihe ọ bụla gburugburu, jupụtara na-apụghị ịgụta ọnụ ọnụ ọgụgụ nke ihe onwunwe ihe sere n'elu na ụfọdụ mkpa attenuated ether. Echere m na etiti okirikiri a na-enweghị okirikiri ka a na-echekarị na ọ bụ "onwe" ma ọ bụ "mkpụrụ obi" nke onye na-esepụta onyinyo a.
- Isi I
- This swallowing up of life in nothingness, this obliteration of life by nothingness is what the emotion of malice ultimately desires. The eternal conflict between love and malice is the eternal contest between life and death. And this contest is what the complex vision reveals, as it moves from darkness to darkness.
- Chapter I
The Meaning of Culture (1929)
[dezie]- Quotations are cited from the 1936 Jonathan Cape reprint.
- One always feels that a merely educated man holds his philosophical views as if they were so many pennies in his pocket. They are separate from his life. Whereas with a cultured man there is no gap or lacuna between his opinions and his life. Both are dominated by the same organic, inevitable fatality. They are what he is.
- p. 19
- The permanent mental attitude which the sensitive intelligence derives from philosophy is an attitude that combines extreme reverence with limitless skepticism.
- pp. 27-28
- "The meaning of culture" is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact with books and with art.
- p. 134
- 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 us and our obstinate, indignant, defiant exultation, we are weakening our genius for life.
- pp. 134
- Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.
- p. 140
- The influence of friendship upon culture differs from that of love, in that it assumes the basic idiosyncrasies of personal taste to be unalterable. Love, in spite of all rational knowledge to the contrary, is always in the mood of believing in miracles.
- p. 170
- No refining of one's taste in matters of art or literature, no sharpening of one's powers of insight in matters of science or psychology, can ever take the place of one's sensitiveness to the life of the earth. This is the beginning and the end of a person's true education.
- p. 175
- 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.
- p. 178
- The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways.
- p. 209
- 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.
- p. 222
Njikọ mpụga
[dezie]
- British Powys Society
- "The Powys Review"
- "The facts and fictions of John Cowper Powys" (14 November 2007)
- "The Powys connection" (31 October 2008)
- Bilingual French/English Powys Site
- Swedish John Cowper Powys Society
- Overview of works and career on Powys
- A review by A.N. Wilson of Porius
- John Cowper Powys in Sussex