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"The Heart Can Push the Sea and Land"


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Copyright: Jim Pinkham (jpinkham) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 163 W: 1 N: 245] (1199)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-08-21
Categories: Daily Life, Mood
Camera: HP Photosmart 945
Exposure: f/8.1, 1/322 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-02-11 20:13
Viewed: 472
Points: 4
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Camden, Maine is at once a beautiful and restful place, sometimes called "the jewel of the Maine coast."

This jewel includes a beautiful waterfront where boats such as the one berthed here, the Samantha Kate, can rest in serene waters. In the background you can see its charming public library, and, further back, Mt. Battie, a favorite place for native Edna St. Vincent Millay, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet. In fact Millay's poem "Renascence" (1912) was written atop this local summit.

It's a long poem, well worth reading in its entirety, but the closing stanza will give you a bit of the flavor of both Millay and this, her home place:

"The world stands out on either side
No wider than the heart is wide;
Above the world is stretched the sky,
No higher than the soul is high.
The heart can push the sea and land
Farther away on either hand;
The soul can split the sky in two,
And let the face of God shine through.
But East and West will pinch the heart
That can not keep them pushed apart;
And he whose soul is flat—the sky
Will cave in on him by and by."

...For more, see: http://www.bartleby.com/131/1.html.

No PP on this, by the way, except sizing to fit the TN requirements.
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I would pay to be at this place and with this weather right now! Fine image..like a hungry man passing a Biog Mac..
Bob

Hi Jim,

Beautiful scene . . Well composed . .
I love reading your note . .
There is quote, but I can't remember where did I read, saying: "The brain said that is in charge of the body; and the heart ask to the brain, who told you" . .
I fully agree with you, that the heart has more power to drive and push . .
Lovely statement my friend . .

Tfs,
Tjutjut

Many thanks for your kind words on King and the Guards .

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