Never the Poetry
by Mike Flynn
Title
Never the Poetry
Artist
Mike Flynn
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Photograph - Digital Art
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The author of this quote is May Sarton.
May Sarton (May 3, 1912-July 16, 1995) left an impressive legacy of over fifty books, including novels, poetry, memoirs and journals. Her appeal lay in her ability to "sacramentalize the ordinary" by probing everyday subjects such as flowers, gardens, animals, changing sunlight and personal relationships in order to find deeper, universal truths. She examined such themes as the need for solitude, the role of the muse in the act of poetic creativity, and the role of the female artist in society.
Born in Wondelgem, Belgium, May grew up as an only child. Fleeing the German invasion in 1914, the Sartons eventually moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts where her father George Sarton, a noted historian of science, taught at Harvard University while continuing his research. May's mother, Mabel Elwes, had been a designer of furniture and fabric in Belgium, but after moving to the United States, Mabel made these artistic interests secondary in order to care for her husband and child. Although her parents were not connected with any church, Sarton as an adult felt that their teachings were not far removed from the religious views of the Unitarian Universalists. Interviewed in The World in 1987, she told Michael Finley, "My father and mother believed that, though Jesus was not God, he was a mighty leader, and the spirit of Jesus, the logos of him, is the worship of God and the spirit of man."
At the age of ten May was introduced to the Unitarian church by her neighborhood friend Barbara Runkle, whose family attended the First Parish in Cambridge. May was impressed by the minister, Samuel McChord Crothers, whose sermons she thought "full of quiet wisdom." One sermon in particular, she recalled in her memoir At Seventy, 1984, "made a great impression on me�and really marked me for life. I can hear him saying, 'Go into the inner chamber of your soul�and shut the door.' The slight pause after 'soul' did it. A revelation to the child who heard it and who never has forgotten it."
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