The ability to start out upon your own impulse is fundamental to the gift of keeping going upon … - Seamus Heaney

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To die or not to die. . . we really don't have a choice. We can therefore only take care of our life-body, until the fullness of time and being ends our existence on earth.

Seamus Heaney

The ability to start out upon your own impulse is fundamental to the gift of keeping going upon your own terms. . . . Getting started, keeping going, getting started again in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm.

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