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
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.
dream thinking enough
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.
novices masters
Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.
nooses
Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.