Jean Toomer Quotes

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• Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.
• The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.
• We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.
• We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.
• It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.
• 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…
• Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you?
• Perhaps . . . our lot on the earth is to seek and to search. Now and again we find just enough to enable us…
• I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.
• Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.
• Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
• Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.
• People mistake their limitations for high standards.
• No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.
• 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…
• Whatever I believed, I did; I did with my whole heart and mind as far as possible to do so...
• In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.
• We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.
• To understand a new idea, break an old habit.
• The only way to seek God is to seek God first. Deny the nayward, affirm the yeaward, be true to those stirrings and motions which…

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