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Jean Toomer (December 26, 1894 – March 30, 1967) was an African American poet and novelist commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance, though he actively resisted the association, and modernism. His first book Cane, published in 1923, is considered by many to be his most significant.

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In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.

Art, Artist, Duty, Get Well, Sick World, World

One may receive the information but miss the teaching.

May, Miss, Missing, Receive, Teaching

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

Dice, Ems, Matter, Times, Wont

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

Grass, Land, Pines, Red, Sweet, Tree

Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily.

Consciously, Egotism, Faults, Impatience

Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.

Life, Mean, Acceptance, Prevailing, Standards

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

Novices, Masters, Content, Picture

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

Might, Poetic, Poet, Become, Conscious

Whatever I believed, I did; I did with my whole heart and mind as far as possible to do so.

Dream, Heart, Mind, Possible, Whole

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

Philosophy, Philosophical, Existence, Know, Love

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.

Carry, Completely, Doubt, Earth, Enable, Enough

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

Running, Men, Wish, Life, Wishes, According

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.

Dream, Giving, Sacred, Singers, Songsabove

Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.

Men, Justice, Diversity, Apt, Fear

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.

Action, Creative, Men, School, Tasted, Thereafter

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

Life, Learning, Experience, Rope, Knots

We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.

Gifts, Giving, Make, Merit, Start

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.

Common, Curves, Feelings, Heard, Rivers, Sing

Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.

Anxiety, Binds, Fear, Life, Noose, Worry

To understand a new idea, break an old habit.

Habit, Ideas, Inspirational, Old, Old Habits, Understand

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