Quotes by Jean Toomer

About Jean Toomer:

Jean Toomer is considered by many to be his most significant. Of mixed race and majority European ancestry, Toomer struggled to identify as "an American" and resisted efforts to classify him as a black writer.
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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

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

Jean Toomer

Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream.

Jean Toomer

No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.

Jean Toomer

Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.

Jean Toomer

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

Jean Toomer

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

Jean Toomer

People mistake their limitations for high standards.

Jean Toomer

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

Jean Toomer

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

Jean Toomer

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

Jean Toomer

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

Jean Toomer

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

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

Jean Toomer

Author Bio

  • NameJean Toomer
  • DescriptionWriter
  • BornDecember 26, 1894
  • DiedMarch 30, 1967
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPoet; Author; Novelist