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Jones Very Quotes

We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel

We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek.

Relationship, Greatness, Unions

jones very (1839). “assays and poems”, p.39

The later rain,--it falls in anxious haste Upon the sun-dried fields and branches bare, Loosening with searching drops the rigid waste, As if it would each root's lost strength repair.

Rain, Fall, Roots

Jones Very (1993). “Jones Very: The Complete Poems”, p.72, University of Georgia Press

As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for which he instinctively works.

Men, Long, World

Jones Very (1839). “Essays and Poems”, p.44

Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.

Reality, World, Next

Jones Very (1839). “Essays and Poems”, p.89

From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.

Wrestling, Soul, Enemy

Jones Very (1839). “Essays and Poems”, p.86

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