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 that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek.

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  Relationship, Greatness, Unions

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

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• 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.

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  Rain, Fall, Roots

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

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

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  Reality, World, Next

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

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• 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.

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  Men, Long, World

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

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

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  Wrestling, Soul, Enemy

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

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