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Wonder Wednesday

Wonder Wednesday

Galileo, Milton, and Rethinking Old Drafts

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Dear Friends,

I am inclined to agree with the critic who said that wonder is a first step to faith, “stand[ing] as in the midst, between knowledge and faith, and hath an eye towards both.”[1] “Between knowledge and faith” also strikes me as the place that poems come from.

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