Jean Toomer

from Cane

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

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“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 delight"

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“Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you?”

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“You are the most sleepiest man I ever see"

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“Night winds in Georgia are vagrant poets, whispering.” 

D. H. Lawrence

 from Pansies THE WHITE HORSE The youth walks up to the white horse, to put its halter on and the horse looks at him in silence. They are s...