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"Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned, as though they were three characters finally in conversation together, three notes suddenly making a chord. Walking allows us to be in our bodies and in the world without being made busy by them. It leaves us free to think without being wholly lost in our thoughts."

Rebecca Solnit

"Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented culture, and doing nothing is hard to do. It’s best done by disguising it as doing something, and the something closest to doing nothing is walking. Walking itself is the intentional act closest to the unwilled rhythms of the body, to breathing and the beating of the heart. It strikes a delicate balance between working and idling, being and doing. It is a bodily labor that produces nothing but thoughts, experiences, arrivals."

Rebecca Solnit
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“A woman walking alone after midnight is always too conscious of being alone to properly inhabit that space which is solitude.” - Kamila Shamsie

“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk” - Søren Kierkegaard

“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.” - Nietzsche

Walking, dancing, pleasure: these accompany the poetic act. I wonder what kind of poet doesn't wear out their shoes, writes with their head. The true poet is a reveler. Poetry is about traveling on foot and all its substitutes, all forms of transportation.

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