Proteus and the Magician Quotes

“My dear Henry
   I've just written to you over the air, but this will have to go by land & sea, never mind! Our peculiar link as two lost re-incarnated Atlanteans meeting again after escaping from the flood in opposite directions will not be broken either by air travel or land & sea travel!”
― John Cowper Powys, Proteus and the Magician: The Letters of Henry Miller and John Cowper Powys

“And now, my dear beloved John Cowper Powys, rest well, breathe lightly, and dream true.
   Henry Miller”
― Henry Miller, Proteus and the Magician: The Letters of Henry Miller and John Cowper Powys

“   Well! my best to ye both and so says Phyllis from us both. I think I enjoy life more not less now that old age has stopped all my naughty little ways!
   Yours as ever
      Jack the Vampire & Corpse Lover.”
― John Cowper Powys, Proteus and the Magician: The Letters of Henry Miller and John Cowper Powys

“John, did Peter Owen (publisher) send you a copy of my book about books? If not I shall flay him. You were first on the list. But the English move slowly. They are all constipated, water-logged, worm-ridden, damn them!”
― Henry Miller, Proteus and the Magician: The Letters of Henry Miller and John Cowper Powys

“O I do so agree with you in Faith being the thing! But Henry (my dear) I can't I can't I can't and I won't (even if it is the old devil himself in me!) I can't agree with you about 'Love'. No no no no no no no no no no I am sick of love. It has been tried and it has failed. Jesus & Love have had their day.”
― John Cowper Powys, Proteus and the Magician: The Letters of Henry Miller and John Cowper Powys

“No I've never read a line of de Sade and never shall. You see my own dominant overpowering maniacal vice was sadism and in Philadelphia (isn't that the right place for such a thing?) I used to borrow from a friend Sadistic Books in French (he had half a library of them!) and carry them off to my lodging where I wd. read them with my knees knocking together & all my pulses going it like mad in a prolonged cerebral fury of crazy unsatisfied satisfaction.”
― John Cowper Powys, Proteus and the Magician: The Letters of Henry Miller and John Cowper Powys

“O it does fascinate me so, my new-old-new friend, to compare our lives. Of course I am really not an artist or a writer tho' I am a story-teller. I am a born orator and even now I long & long & long for The Platform as an old circus clown longs—or as we pretend he longs for the Ring! On the platform and there alone I am really myself & in my element & now I have been away from the platform for 20 years!”
― John Cowper Powys, Proteus and the Magician: The Letters of Henry Miller and John Cowper Powys