W STEVENS Perhaps The truth depends on a walk around a lake…

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The line you're thinking of is by Wallace Stevens:

“Perhaps
The truth depends on a walk around a lake…”
— from Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942) (Lib Quotes)

Longer excerpt:

“Perhaps
The truth depends on a walk around a lake,
A composing as the body tires, a stop
To see hepatica, a stop to watch
A definition growing certain…” (Lib Quotes)

Meaning (in one breath):
Truth isn’t forced — it emerges while moving, observing, and letting the mind settle.

This fits eerily with:

• the Bhagavad Gita → act without clinging

• walking meditation traditions

• insight arriving indirectly, not by pushing

So the pivot becomes:
Don’t chase truth. Walk. It arrives.