Jean Toomer Quotes
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Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.
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The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.
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Superstition sawSomething it had never seen before:Brown eyes that loved without a trace of fear,Beauty so sudden for that time of year.
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Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.
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One seed becomesAn everlasting song, a singing tree,Caroling softly souls of slavery,What they were, and what they are to me,Caroling softly souls of slavery.
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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.
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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.
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We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.
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Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
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I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.
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People mistake their limitations for high standards.
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Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.
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And there, a field rat, startled, squealing bleeds,His belly close to ground. I see the blade,Blood-stained, continue cutting weeds and shade
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No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.