| Author Quoted | |
| Title Quoted | Cloud of Unknowing |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1961/07/01 |
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| Quotation | I like the Penguin edition of the Cloud. It is clear and easy for the contemporary reader. Yet it does lose some of the richness of the older more concrete English. I like the fourteenth-century English mystics more and more. I am reading [Walter Hilton's] The Scale [of Perfection], which has such a great deal in it. And you are of course right about Eckhart. He is more and more wonderful, and when properly interpreted, becomes less "way out" as our beats say. There is more in one sermon of Eckhart than in volumes of other people. There is so much packed in between the lines. |
| Quotation Source | The Hidden Ground of Love: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Experience and Social Concerns.; Selected and edited by William H. Shannon. / New York : Farrar Straus Giroux. 1985, p. 343 |
| Letter to | Etta Gullick |
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| Link to Merton's Copy |
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