Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person

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CENTERING C E N T E R I N G in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person By MARY CAROLINE RICHARDS Second Edition WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS Middletown, Connecticut Published by WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS Middletown, CT 06459 Copyright © 1962,1964,1989by Mary Caroline Richards Introduction to the Second Edition Copyright © 1989 by Mary Caroline Richards Foreword to the Second Edition Copyright © 1989 by MatthewFox All rights reserved "The Red Wheelbarrow" by WilliamCarlos Williams, reprinted herein, is from The Collected Earlier Poems of William Carlos Williams. Copyright © 1938,1951by W.C. Williams. Reprinted by permission of New Directions, publishers. Frontispiece photograph ©George Ancona 1989 Printed in the United States ofAmerica 10 9 8 7 First Edition, 1964 Second Edition, 1989 Wesleyan Paperback, 1989 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Richards, Mary Caroline Centering in pottery,poetry,and the person / by Mary Caroline Richards. — 2nd ed. p. cm. ISBN 0-8195-5190-2 ISBN 0-8195-6200-9 (pbk.) i. Self-actualization (Psychology) 2. Self-realization. i.Title 65637.S 4R 52 1989 158'.!—dcig 88-38316 "For the goodman torealize that it is better tobe whole than to begood is to enter on a strait and narrow path compared to which his previous rectitude was flowery licence." —John Middleton Murry "Dann man gerade nur denkt,wenn, das woriiber man denkt, man gar nicht ausdenken kann." (Then only arewe really thinking when the subject on which we are thinking cannot be thought out.) —Goethe This page intentionally left blank ...