Jean Toomer Quotes
Jean Toomer offers lyrical, hopeful musings on nature, beauty and the quiet power of poetry.
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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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O singers, resinous and soft your songs Above 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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Superstition saw Something 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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One seed becomes An 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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We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.
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Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you?
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Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.
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No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.
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It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.
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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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One may receive the information but miss the teaching.
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Whatever I believed, I did; I did with my whole heart and mind as far as possible to do so...
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some genius of the South With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth, Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds.
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The only way to seek God is to seek God first. Deny the nayward, affirm the yeaward, be true to those stirrings and motions which He starts in us, refuse priority to all else, and be faithful to the sacred.
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The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.
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People mistake their limitations for high standards.