Inspirational Quote by Jean Toomer

“You are the most sleepiest man I ever seed.”

— 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,…

— Jean Toomer

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

— Jean Toomer

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

— Jean Toomer

Dripping rain like golden honey- And the sweet earth flying from the thunder

— 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…

— Jean Toomer

Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you?

— Jean Toomer

Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.

— Jean Toomer

No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.

— Jean Toomer

“Her Lips Are Copper Wire” whisper of yellow globes gleaming on lamp posts that sway like bootleg licker drinkers in the fog and let…

— Jean Toomer

Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads, Great, hollow, bell-like flowers

— Jean Toomer

“Night winds in Georgia are vagrant poets, whispering.”

— Jean Toomer