| Author Quoted | Virgil |
| Title Quoted | Georgics |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1963/11/11 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : [s.n.]. 29 B.C. |
| Quotation | I am glad you have been working on [Robinson] Jeffers. I can see what would attract you in him, though I have not read him much. There is too much of him, and he is too grandiloquent for me in some ways. I have never been attracted to him much. But this is my fault and not his. Mark Van Doren likes him and I like Van Doren (one of the rare poets here I can read). Nor have I ever got into Lucretius. Personally I like Horace and Virgil, and I think Virgil is an unquestionably great one. I have always loved the Georgics, and Horace's Odes. |
| Quotation Source | The Courage for Truth: Letters of Thomas Merton to Writers.; Selected and edited by Christine M. Bochen. / New York : Farrar Straus Giroux. 1993, p. 81 |
| Letter to | Czeslaw Milosz |
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