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.” 

John Ashbery

  The New Spirit (excerpt) I thought that if I could put it all down, that would be one way. And next the thought came to me that to leave a...