Nothing can come out of nothing

'Nothing can come out of nothing' opines King Lear, that is why the notion of the Big Bang is essentially theological, there are always continuities
T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral is a manifest sign of continuities stretching back a thousand years

When Tolkien author of Lord of the Rings was stirred by reading ancient English, 'my imagination was awakened stirred by ancient voices.'