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Cane
Jean Toomer
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.”
“Her Lips Are Copper Wire” whisper of yellow globes gleaming on lamp posts that sway like bootleg licker drinkers in the fog and let your breath be moist against me like bright beads on yellow globes telephone the power-house that the main wires are insulate (her words play up and down dewy corridors of billboards) then with your tongue remove the tape and press your lips to mine till they are incandescent”
“Happy, Muriel? No, not happy. Your aim is wrong. There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them. No one should want to. Perfect joy, or perfect pain, with no contrasting element to define them, would mean a monotony of consciousness, would mean death.”
“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 when compared with his, you will know my feeling when I follow the curves of her profile, like mobile rivers, to their common delta.”
“Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you?”
“You are the most sleepiest man I ever seed.”
“Night winds in Georgia are vagrant poets, whispering.”
“But words is like th spots on dice: no matter how y fumbles em, there's times when they jes wont come.”
“There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them.”
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