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

If you have heard a Jewish cantor sing, if he has touched you and made your own sorrow seem trivial ...

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

No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.

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

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Jean Toomer

Poet

Born: 1894-12-26

Died: 1967-03-30

Jean Toomer (December 26, 1894 – March 30, 1967) was an American poet and novelist and an important figure of the Harlem Renaissance.More