“Her own glowing is too rich a thing to let her feel the slimness of his diluted passion.”
Source: Cane
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Famous Jean Toomer Quotes
Source: Cane
“I met a woman— Much that I am I owe to her, For she was going where I was going”
Source: The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer
Source: The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer
“O land and soil, red soil and sweet-gum tree, So scant of grass, so profligate of pines”
Source: The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer
“One may receive the information but miss the teaching.”
Source: The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967
“We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.”
“Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.”
Source: The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967
“Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.”
“The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.”
Source: The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967
“It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.”
Source: The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967
Source: The Wayward and the Seeking: A Collection of Writings by Jean Toomer
“Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you?”
Source: Cane (New Edition)
“I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.”
“Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.”
Source: The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967
“Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.”
Source: The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967
Source: The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967
“People mistake their limitations for high standards.”
Source: The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967
“Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads, Great, hollow, bell-like flowers”
Source: The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer
“Dripping rain like golden honey- And the sweet earth flying from the thunder”
Source: The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer
“Whatever I believed, I did; I did with my whole heart and mind as far as possible to do so.”
“In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.”
“We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.”
Source: The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967
“To understand a new idea, break an old habit.”
Source: The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967