Glastonbury Quotes

“Thus she abides; her Towers forever rising, forever vanishing. Never or Always.”
― John Cowper Powys, A Glastonbury Romance

“Thus did these two, the man from Wales and the man from Norfolk, enter the silent streets of the town of Glastonbury.”
― John Cowper Powys, A Glastonbury Romance

“He had never been a man who attracted women, and he exaggerated their coldness towards him. Indeed in regard to the love of women he had a physical humility that was almost a mania. One of the strongest holds that Mary had over him was the simple fact that she, a sweet-looking, intellectual girl, could be in love with him at all! Secretly John regarded himself as the most unlovable human creature then living in Glastonbury.”
― John Cowper Powys, A Glastonbury Romance

“So potent however is the concentrated love of the feminine heart, that although this man, sitting there above her, had just beheld—actually in the flesh—that elusive Mystery which was the cause of Glastonbury's being Glastonbury, it was the girl and not the man who dominated that moment, her exultation, and not his, that held the thunder-flash of that charged air.”
― John Cowper Powys, A Glastonbury Romance