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

— Jean Toomer

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

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

— Jean Toomer

No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.

— Jean Toomer

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

— Jean Toomer