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
teaching missing information
One may receive the information but miss the teaching.
imagination missing enough
We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.
eye sight loses
No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.
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.
might poet conscious
I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.
doubt earth enough
Perhaps . . . our lot on the earth is to seek and to search. Now and again we find just enough to enable us to carry on. I now doubt that any of us will completely find and be found in this life.
lifetime wells
It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.
ignorance knowing justice
The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.
matter dice ems
But words is like th spots on dice: no matter how y fumbles em, there's times when they jes wont come.
faults impatience egotism
Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily.
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.
dream heart mind
Whatever I believed, I did; I did with my whole heart and mind as far as possible to do so...
mean acceptance prevailing
Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.