Jones Very Quotes

A collection of quotes by Jones Very.

Jones Very (1813-1880) was an American poet and theologian. Born in Salem, Massachusetts, he graduated from Harvard Divinity School in 1836. Known for his mystical and transcendentalist writings, Very was associated with the Transcendentalist movement in New England and counted Ralph Waldo Emerson among his admirers. However, he struggled with mental health issues throughout his life and eventually withdrew from public life in the 1840s. Despite his relatively short-lived writing career, Jones Very left a lasting impact on American literature and continues to be studied and appreciated by scholars of literary and religious history.

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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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