Jean Toomer Quotes

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.

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

Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream.

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.