As those words intimate, an even greater wellspring for Dickinson's riot of "No" was religious uncertainty, which for Dickinson issued directly from the Calvinist evangelicalism tearing through New England during her coming of age.
What the research shows, instead, is that the great wellspring of creativity is intrinsic motivation — that is, I do my best work for personal rewards (out of love or intellectual fulfillment) and not external motivation (money).
Instead, they should surely tap into the great wellspring of public interest in and curiosity about scientific enquiry, as evidenced by the eager audiences for public lectures, panel discussions, radio talks and TV programmes.
From Pere Ubu, Devo and the rest to the more recent likes of Party of Helicopters and This Moment in Black History, Ohio has long been one of the great wellsprings of weird genius in US rock.
"Folklore may prove to be, not a romantic and colourful ragbag of the discarded and outworn ideas of humanity, but one of the great wellsprings of the democratic attitudes that have in the past two centuries begun to make for a more equitable life for all mankind upon this planet," he wrote to the Guggenheim Foundation in 1946, in one of his many applications for funding.
Sufism historically was one of the great wellsprings of Islamic philosophy, and deeply influenced luminaries like the great Muslim theologian Abu Hamid al-Ghazali and the thirteenth century mystic thinker, Ibn Arabi.
Eight Months on Ghazzah Street (1988), tells you a great deal about the wellsprings of [Islamist] fundamentalism.
During the 1970s, when Australian cinema experienced a great renaissance and produced a wellspring of fresh talent widely regarded as some of our finest film-makers, these artists generally stuck around.
But sometimes I just need to be alone, and that's when places like Wellspring House are perfect -- as in, cheap enough for me to afford by myself and full of a great creative vibe.
At the same time, the secrets that lie beyond our field of vision are a wellspring of great disquiet; they tell at best of unknowable national security, at worst of unreachable loneliness, or of a kingdom that has been hollowed out, like a marriage, without our even noticing.
