Whatever I believed, I did; I did with my whole heart and mind as far as possible to do so. Jean Toomer More Quotes by Jean Toomer More Quotes From Jean Toomer 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. Jean Toomer creative men school Perhaps . . . our lot on the earth is to seek and to search. Now and again we find just enough to enable us to carry on. I now doubt that any of us will completely find and be found in this life. Jean Toomer enough earth doubt But words is like th spots on dice: no matter how y fumbles em, Jean Toomer dice ems matter No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight. Jean Toomer eye sight beauty Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you? Jean Toomer it-hurts ifs hurt Dripping rain like golden honey- Jean Toomer flying rain sweet 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. Jean Toomer singers dream giving some genius of the South Jean Toomer eye song blood O land and soil, red soil and sweet-gum tree, Jean Toomer land tree sweet 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 curves feelings rivers It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist. Jean Toomer wells lifetime
