41 Quotes by 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.

One may receive the information but miss the teaching.

People mistake their limitations for high standards.

I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.

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.

Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you?

Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.

It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.