Jean Toomer
Jean Toomer
Jean Toomerwas an African American poet and novelist and an important figure of the Harlem Renaissance and modernism. His first book Cane, published in 1923, is considered by many to be his most significant...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth26 December 1894
CountryUnited States of America
nooses
Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.
novices masters
Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.
dream thinking enough
Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.
dream heart mind
Whatever I believed, I did; I did with my whole heart and mind as far as possible to do so...
dream giving singers
O singers, resinous and soft your songsAbove the sacred whisper of the pines,Give virgin lips to cornfield concubines,Bring dreams of Christ to dusky cane-lipped throngs.
mistake people high-standards
People mistake their limitations for high standards.
curves rivers feelings
If you have heard a Jewish cantor sing, if he has touched you and made your own sorrow seem trivial when compared with his, you will know my feeling when I follow the curves of her profile, like mobile rivers, to their common delta.