In fact, the ability to start out upon your own impulse is
fundamental to the gift of keeping going upon your own terms,
not to mention the further and more fulfilling gift of
getting started all over again - never resting upon the oars of
success or in the doldrums of disappointment... Getting started,
keeping going, getting started again - in art and in life,
it seems to me this is the essential rhythm...
- Seamus Heaney
