amphibiums

Updated: January 15, 2026

I have sometimes fancied that the famished craving in the eyes and nostrils of El Greco's saints was a queer survival of that tragic look which that earlier Greek, Scopas the Sculptor, took such pains to throw upon the eyelids of his half-human amphibiums.

John Cowper Powys - Visions and Revisions: A Book of Literary Devotions