| Author Quoted | Ernesto Cardenal |
| Title Quoted | Literatura indigena americana: Antología |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1962/11/17 |
| Imprint | Medellín : Editorial Universidad de Antioquia. 1964 |
| Quotation | Your poems about the Indians have been simply superb. I am sure your whole book [Literatura indígena americana: Antología] will be splendid and look forward to seeing it. You have a very great deal to say and I know it is most important. This is something far deeper than indigenismo with a political"”or religious"”hook inside the bait. This is a profound spiritual witness. Also a reparation, and a deep adoration of the Creator, an act of humility and love which the whole race of the Christian conquerors has been putting off and neglecting for centuries. It reminds me that some day I want to write something about Vasco de Quiroga. I have not forgotten about the Indians and all that they mean to us both. |
| 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. 136 |
| Letter to | Ernesto Cardenal |
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