"Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles."
"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."
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Source: Jean Toomer (1988). “The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer”, p.26, UNC Press Books
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