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.
Source: In The Lives of Jean Toomer, by Cynthia Kerman and Richard Eldridge, 1987.
-- Jean Toomer, (Dec 26 1894-1967), US author, poet; He was the Harlem Renaissance writer who wrote Cane, 1933.