Thomas Traherne
Thomas Traherne
Thomas Traherne MAwas an English poet, clergyman, theologian, and religious writer. Little information is known about his life. The intense, scholarly spirituality in his writings has led to his being commemorated by some parts of the Anglican Communion on 10 Octoberor on September 27...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionClergyman
nature natural glorious
Natural things are glorious, and to know them is glorious.
thinking air sea
Is it not easy to conceive the World in your Mind? To think the Heavens fair? The Sun Glorious? The Earth fruitful? The Air Pleasant? The Sea Profitable? And the Giver bountiful? Yet these are the things which it is difficult to retain. For could we always be sensible of their use and value, we should be always delighted with their wealth and glory.
happiness thinking imagination
To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.
love shining sun
You are as prone to love, as the sun is to shine.
soul doe buried
The Soul is shriveled up and buried in a grave that does not love.
eye sight envy
A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry principle in the mind is of infinite consequence.
stars ocean sea
You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.
love kings war
I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love.
religion world treasure
A stranger here Strange things doth meet, strange glories see; Strange treasures lodged in this fair world appear, Strange all, and new to me. But that they mine should be, who nothing was, That strangest is of all, yet brought to pass.
space joy duration
This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is another region and room of joys.
men infinite-beauty mirrors
The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it.
love miserable poor
To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.
jewels soul
Souls are God's jewels.
song stars wind
And every stone and every star a tongue, And every gale of wind a curious song. The Heavens were an oracle, and spoke Divinity: the Earth did undertake The office of a priest; and I being dumb (Nothing besides was dumb) all things did come With voices and instructions...