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
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.
school men creative
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.
merit
We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.
art get-well sick-world
In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.
running men trying
Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
ideas old-habits break
To understand a new idea, break an old habit.
priorities faithful sacred
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.
imagination missing enough
We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.
flower bells thunder
Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads, Great, hollow, bell-like flowers
philosophical existence humans
We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.