| Author Quoted | Cassiodorus |
| Title Quoted | Institutiones Divinarum et Saecularium Litterarum |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1962/06/09 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : [s.n.]. 543-555 |
| Quotation | I never thought I would discover in myself a hunger for something like Cassiodorus' Chapters on Rhetoric, or even Grammar. And even for Donatus, to whom he refers. But everything in Cassiodorus is attractive because it is clean and clear. One can appreciate his clarity without attaching an indiscreet importance to the subjects on which he speaks clearly. But perhaps we have forgotten that grammar, rhetoric and the other liberal arts do have an importance. |
| Quotation Source | Turning Toward the World: The Pivotal Years. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 4, 1960-1963.; Edited by Victor A. Kramer. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 225 |
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