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.
We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence. - Jean Toomer
We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.
- Jean Toomer
some genius of the South With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth, Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds. - Jean Toomer
some genius of the South With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth, Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds.
No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight. - Jean Toomer
No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.
In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well. - Jean Toomer
In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.
To understand a new idea, break an old habit. - Jean Toomer
To understand a new idea, break an old habit.
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… - Jean Toomer
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…
Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you? - Jean Toomer
Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you?
Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads, Great, hollow, bell-like flowers - Jean Toomer
Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads, Great, hollow, bell-like flowers
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 … - Jean Toomer
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 …
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