Wonder Wednesday

Wonder and Marvelous Singularity

For the wonderer, there is something unsettling, and therefore generative, about an experience that refuses to be tamed by the mind’s usual orders, that requires the sort of skill Sir Philip Sidney might call just beyond “the zodiac of one’s own wit.”[1]

Aquinas and Aristotle suggest that wonder catalyzes the poetic impulse by provoking a restlessness t…