6 Quotes & Sayings By Jean Toomer

Jean Toomer (1894–1967) was an American author and poet. He is best known for his landmark novel Cane (1923), as well as his short stories and poems. Jean Toomer remained a lifelong admirer of the American South, and his writing reflects this devotion. Toomer's work is characterised by its fluid style and meditative themes; he also wrote several volumes on the subject of the blues.

It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize...
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It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist. Jean Toomer
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Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream. Jean Toomer
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We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing. Jean Toomer
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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
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No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight. Jean Toomer