| Author Quoted | T.S. Eliot |
| Title Quoted | Four Quartets |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1948/06/06 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : [s.n.]. 1943 |
| Quotation | I wouldn't mind being recognized as a poet if I really were a poet. But it gives me comfort to read poets who are poets. Eliot's Little Gidding and Robert Lowell. "¦the flies, the flies of Babylon. |
| Quotation Source | Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk and Writer. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 2, 1941-1952.; Edited by Jonathan Montaldo. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 210 |
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