Jean Toomer

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

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

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

No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.

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.