“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.” MenWorldLongNaturalExistenceThis WorldLabor Book:Essays and Poems Source: Essays and Poems
“From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.” SoulEnemyMysteryDepthWrestling Book:Essays and Poems Source: Essays and Poems
“Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.” WorldRealityNextThis WorldContending Book:Essays and Poems Source: Essays and Poems
“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.” IfsFallLostSunFieldsWasteRainRootsBranchesAnxiousHaste Book:Jones Very: The Complete Poems Source: Jones Very: The Complete Poems
“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.” KnowsFeelsMadeSpiritRelationshipGreatnessUnionsSpotsConversesUnsatisfied Book:assays and poems Source: assays and poems