Jean Toomer Quotes

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• 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.

  Jean Toomer

  Dream, Time, Thinking

  Jean Toomer (1980). “The Wayward and the Seeking: A Collection of Writings by Jean Toomer”, Washington : Howard University Press

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• Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.

  Jean Toomer

  Life, Worry, Anxiety

  Jean Toomer (2003). “The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967”, Edwin Mellen Press

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• To understand a new idea, break an old habit.

  Jean Toomer

  Inspirational, Ideas, Old Habits

  Jean Toomer (2003). “The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967”, Edwin Mellen Press

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• We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

  Jean Toomer

  Life, Learning, Experience

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• In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.

  Jean Toomer

  Art, Get Well, Sick World

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• Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.

  Jean Toomer

  Novices, Masters

  Jean Toomer (2003). “The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967”, Edwin Mellen Press

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• We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.

  Jean Toomer

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Existence

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• The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

  Jean Toomer

  Ignorance, Knowing, Justice

  Jean Toomer (2003). “The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967”, Edwin Mellen Press

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• The only way to seek God is to seek God first. Deny the nayward, affirm the yeaward, be true to those stirrings and motions which He starts in us, refuse priority to all else, and be faithful to the sacred.

  Jean Toomer

  Priorities, Faithful, Firsts

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• We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.

  Jean Toomer

  Giving, Merit

  Jean Toomer (2003). “The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967”, Edwin Mellen Press

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• Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.

  Jean Toomer

  Life, Mean, Acceptance

  Jean Toomer (2003). “The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967”, Edwin Mellen Press

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• We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.

  Jean Toomer

  Imagination, Missing, Enough

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• There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them. No one should want to. Perfect joy, or perfect pain, with no contrasting element to define them, would mean a monotony of consciousness, would mean death

  Jean Toomer

  Pain, Mean, Perfect

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• One may receive the information but miss the teaching.

  Jean Toomer

  Teaching, Missing, May

  Jean Toomer (2003). “The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967”, Edwin Mellen Press

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• People mistake their limitations for high standards.

  Jean Toomer

  Life, Mistake, People

  Jean Toomer (2003). “The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967”, Edwin Mellen Press

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• Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads,
  Great, hollow, bell-like flowers

  Jean Toomer

  Flower, Bells, Thunder

  Jean Toomer (1988). “The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer”, p.10, UNC Press Books

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• Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.

  Jean Toomer

  Men, Justice, Diversity

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• Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily.

  Jean Toomer

  Faults, Impatience, Egotism

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• Whatever I believed, I did; I did with my whole heart and mind as far as possible to do so.

  Jean Toomer

  Dream, Heart, Mind

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• No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.

  Jean Toomer

  Beauty, Eye, Sight

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• Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

  Jean Toomer

  Running, Men, Wish

  Jean Toomer (2003). “The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967”, Edwin Mellen Press

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• Once a man has tasted creative action, then thereafter, no matter how safely he schools himself in patience, he is restive, acutely dissatisfied with anything else. He becomes as a lover to whom abstinence is intolerable.

  Jean Toomer

  School, Men, Creative

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• Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you?

  Jean Toomer

  Hurt, It Hurts, Ifs

  Jean Toomer (2011). “Cane (New Edition)”, p.116, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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.

  Jean Toomer

  Doubt, Earth, Enough

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• Dripping rain like golden honey-
  And the sweet earth flying from the thunder

  Jean Toomer

  Sweet, Rain, Flying

  Jean Toomer (1988). “The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer”, p.10, UNC Press Books

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