Jean Toomer Quotes - Page 2

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• It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.

  Jean Toomer

  Lifetime, Wells

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

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• But words is like th spots on dice: no matter how y fumbles em,
  there's times when they jes wont
  come.

  Jean Toomer

  Ems, Matter, Dice

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• I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.

  Jean Toomer

  Might, Poetic, Poet

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• 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.

  Jean Toomer

  Dream, Giving, Singers

  Jean Toomer (1988). “The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer”, p.27, UNC Press Books

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• some genius of the South
  With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth,
  Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds.

  Jean Toomer

  Song, Eye, Blood

  Jean Toomer (1988). “The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer”, p.27, UNC Press Books

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• O land and soil, red soil and sweet-gum tree,
  So scant of grass, so profligate of pines

  Jean Toomer

  Sweet, Land, Tree

  Jean Toomer (1988). “The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer”, p.26, UNC Press Books

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• 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.

  Jean Toomer

  Rivers, Curves, Feelings

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