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Jean Toomer Quotes

Some genius of the South With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth, Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters Picture Quote #1

We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them Picture Quote #1

To understand a new idea, break an old habit Picture Quote #1

In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well Picture Quote #1

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Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you? Picture Quote #1

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing Picture Quote #1

One may receive the information but miss the teaching Picture Quote #1

No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight Picture Quote #1

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots Picture Quote #1

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing Picture Quote #1

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People mistake their limitations for high standards Picture Quote #1

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity Picture Quote #1

Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles Picture Quote #1

Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman Picture Quote #1

We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Whatever I believed, I did; I did with my whole heart and mind as far as possible to do so Picture Quote #1

I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become Picture Quote #1

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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. (Jean Toomer Quotes) 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 Quotes) Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters (Jean Toomer Quotes) We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them (Jean Toomer Quotes) To understand a new idea, break an old habit (Jean Toomer Quotes) In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well (Jean Toomer Quotes) Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you? (Jean Toomer Quotes) We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing (Jean Toomer Quotes) One may receive the information but miss the teaching (Jean Toomer Quotes) No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight (Jean Toomer Quotes) We learn the rope of life by untying its knots (Jean Toomer Quotes) The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing (Jean Toomer Quotes) People mistake their limitations for high standards (Jean Toomer Quotes) Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity (Jean Toomer Quotes) Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles (Jean Toomer Quotes) Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own (Jean Toomer Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman (Jean Toomer Quotes) We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence (Jean Toomer Quotes) 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 Quotes) Whatever I believed, I did; I did with my whole heart and mind as far as possible to do so (Jean Toomer Quotes) I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become (Jean Toomer Quotes)