Once a man has tasted ...

Once a man has tasted creative action, then thereafter, no matter how safely he schools himself in patience, he is restive, acutely dissatisfied with anything else. He becomes as a lover to whom abstinence is intolerable.
 Jean Toomer

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Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.
 Jean Toomer
some genius of the South With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth, Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds.
 Jean Toomer