Bewilderment

"Truly, the world is full of emotion--more or less--but it is caught in bewilderment to a far more important degree. And the purpose of art, so far as it has any, is not at least to copy that, but lies in the resolution of difficulties to its own comprehensive organization of materials. And by so doing, in this case, rather than by copying, it takes its place as most human."

-William Carlos Williams, from "The Work of Gertrude Stein"