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Jean Toomer Quotes

Jean Toomer quotes

American Author December 26, 1894 – March 30, 1967

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Muriel seeks happiness and beauty. Dan informs her that life is a balance between the two, between suffering and laughter, beauty and ugliness. 'There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them. No one should want to. Perfect joy, or perfect pain, with no contrasting element to define them, would mean a monotony of consciousness, would mean death. Not happy, Muriel. Say that you have tried to make them CREATE. Jean Toomer
Happy, Muriel? No, not happy. Your aim is wrong. There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them. No one should want to. Perfect joy, or perfect pain, with no contrasting element to define them, would mean a monotony of consciousness, would mean death. Jean Toomer
Jean Toomer quote: "Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs..."
Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. Jean Toomer
Jean Toomer quote: "We learn the rope of life by untying its knots."
We learn the rope of life by untying its knots. Jean Toomer
Jean Toomer quote: "No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight."
No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight. Jean Toomer
Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it. Jean Toomer
Jean Toomer quote: "Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your..."
Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily. Jean Toomer
Jean Toomer quote: "We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing."
We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing. 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 when I follow the curves of her profile, like mobile rivers, to their common delta. Jean Toomer
Dusk, suggesting the almost imperceptible posession of giant trees, settled with a purple haze about the cane. I felt strange, as I always do in Georgia, particularly at dusk. I felt that things unseen to men were tangibly immediate. It would not have surprised me had I had a vision. Jean Toomer
Jean Toomer quote: "Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content..."
Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters. Jean Toomer
whisper of yellow globesgleaming on lamp posts that swaylike bootleg licker drinkers in the fogand let your breath be moist against melike bright beads on yellow globestelephone the power-housethat the main wires are insulate(her words play up and down dewy corridors of billboards)then with your tongue remove the tapeand press your lips to minetill they are incandescent Jean Toomer
Jean Toomer quote: "People mistake their limitations for high standards."
People mistake their limitations for high standards. Jean Toomer
Jean Toomer quote: "Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles."
Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles. Jean Toomer
Jean Toomer quote: "The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing."
The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing. Jean Toomer

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