“Aesthetic Experience as Quickening”
Artwork by John Diamond, M.D.
The quickening: the mother’s first awareness of the baby within.
And by capitalizing – Quickening – I am referring to the mother’s first awareness of the baby as spirit within her.
Every aesthetic experience
should be a Quickening.
As should be every moment of life.
It’s the music I hear,
but it’s the spirit I feel
– I am Quickened.
