I Know What I Know (If You Know What I Mean)

Edie Brickell: What I Am

I must continue to follow
the path I take now.
If I do nothing,
if I study nothing,
if I cease searching,
then, woe is me, I am lost.
That is how I look at it--
keep going,
keep going come what may.
But what is your final goal,
you may ask.
That goal will become clearer,
will emerge slowly but surely,
much as the rough draft
turns into a sketch,
and the sketch into a painting
through the serious work
done on it,

through the elaboration
of the original vague idea
and through the consolidation
of the first fleeting
and passing thought.

--Vincent van Gogh