No sight that human eyes can look upon is more provocative of awe than is the night sky scattered thick with stars.

His time spent in Africa farming with his brother William near Gilgil in British East Africa (now in Kenya) from 1914 to 1919. Various other writers and artists lived in the village at different times such as Sylvia Townsend Warner and David Garnett the poets Valentine Ackland and Gamel Woolsey and the sculptors Elizabeth Muntz and Stephen Tomlin. He was educated at Sherborne School 1899-1903 and Corpus Christi College Cambridge 1903-1906.

Llewelyn Powys (13 August 1884 – 2 December 1939) was a British novelist and essayist and younger brother of John Cowper Powys and T. Powys.