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Jean Toomer
December 26, 1894 - March 30, 1967
Nationality: American
Category: Author
Subcategory: American Author

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

   

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

   

People mistake their limitations for high standards.

   

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

   

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

   

Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.

   

No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.

   

Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.

   

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

   

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

   

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