A great deal of my poetry has been written while I have been out walking.

Wallace Stevens

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Topic

Walking and creativity Walking Creativity

Author

Wallace Stevens

Source

Letters of Wallace Stevens

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1954 1950s 20th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Stevens, Wallace. Letter to Irita Van Doren. 20 Sept. 1954.

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The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.

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Topic
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Source
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Medium
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Genre
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Language
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Time
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Original Citation

Wilder, Thornton. The Matchmaker. 4 Nov. 1954, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, act 2.

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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

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Speaker
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Language
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Time
1962 1960s 20th century
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Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert. Quoted in The Scientist Speculates: An Anthology of Partly-Baked Ideas, written by Irving John Good. Heinemann, 1962, ch. 1, sect. 6.