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

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

Jean Toomer
Lifetime, Wells
Jean Toomer (2003). “The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967”, Edwin Mellen Press

But words is like th spots on dice: no matter how y fumbles em, there's times when they jes wont come.

Jean Toomer
Ems, Matter, Dice

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

Jean Toomer
Might, Poetic, Poet

O singers, resinous and soft your songsAbove the sacred whisper of the pines,Give virgin lips to cornfield concubines,Bring dreams of Christ to dusky cane-lipped throngs.

Jean Toomer
Dream, Giving, Singers
Jean Toomer (1988). “The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer”, p.27, UNC Press Books

some genius of the South With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth, Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds.

Jean Toomer
Song, Eye, Blood
Jean Toomer (1988). “The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer”, p.27, UNC Press Books

O land and soil, red soil and sweet-gum tree, So scant of grass, so profligate of pines

Jean Toomer
Sweet, Land, Tree
Jean Toomer (1988). “The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer”, p.26, UNC Press Books

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.

Jean Toomer
Rivers, Curves, Feelings

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