| Author Quoted | Rainer Maria Rilke |
| Title Quoted | Duino Elegies / translated into English by James Blair Leishman and Stephen Spender |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1966/02/13 |
| Imprint | New York : W.W.Norton & Company. 1963 |
| Quotation | As to Rilke - I know what you mean. He is a fine poet but I have grave reservations about him too. As prophet there is really something missing. One may however like the Duino Elegies in spite of these reservations. My reservations have been more seriously on the Orpheus Sonnets, and ther 'Theogeny.' |
| Quotation Source | The Letters of Thomas Merton and Victor and Carolyn Hammer: Ad majorem Dei Gloriam.; Edited by F. Douglas Scutchfield and Paul Evans Holbrook Jr. / [S.l.] : The University Press of Kentucky. 2014, p. 226 |
| Letter to | Victor Hammer |
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