List of Quotes by Letter Recipient

Date [Source / Page]	Author Quoted	Title Quoted	Quotation by Merton [link to full quote]
1938/08/11 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 142-43]		Bhagavad Gita	Truthfully I have an enormous obscure subtle thesis that Blake is all full of Indian and Chinese theories of a..
1938/08/11 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 144]	James Joyce	Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	I have read Portrait of the Artist which is certainly a remarkable fine book, and the best thing I have read i..
1938/08/11 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 144]	James Joyce	Ulysses	I have read Portrait of the Artist which is certainly a remarkable fine book, and the best thing I have read i..
1939/08/21 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 147]	Valery Larbaud	Amants Heureux Amants	I found this French guy Valery Larbaud to be some good guy too. I just got his novel, Amants Heureux Amants, i..
1939/10/00 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 151]	Thomas Aquinas	De Ente et Essentia	One of the most extraordinarily difficult things I have ever tried to do is understand St. Thomas' De Ente et ..
1942/11/21 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 166]	Teresa of Avila	Autobiography	All these things I read in St. Augustine: the Commentary on the Psalms, the Book on the Sermons on the Mount, ..
1947/05/00 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 170]	Jan Ruusbroec	Oeuvres de Ruysbroeck l'admirable / Jan van Ruusbroec ; trad. du flamand par les Benedictins de Saint-Paul de Wisques par Ernest Hello	The autobiography [The Seven Storey Mountain] comes along slow. Haven't seen page proofs. Bob Giroux must be v..
1947/05/00 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 170]	Saint John of the Cross	complete works of Saint John of the Cross, doctor of the church / Saint John of the Cross ; transl. from the critical edition of P. Silverio de Santa Teresa, and ed. by E. Allison Peers	The autobiography [The Seven Storey Mountain] comes along slow. Haven't seen page proofs. Bob Giroux must be v..
1947/05/00 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 170]	T.S. Eliot	Four Quartets	The autobiography [The Seven Storey Mountain] comes along slow. Haven't seen page proofs. Bob Giroux must be v..

Abbreviations ▲	Source of Merton's Quotation and Citation
Ltrs: CforT	The Courage for Truth: Letters of Thomas Merton to Writers.
Ltrs: Giroux	Letters of Robert Giroux and Thomas Merton.
Ltrs: Hammer	The Letters of Merton and Victor and Carolyn Hammer.
Ltrs: HGL	The Hidden Ground of Love.
Ltrs: Laughlin	Thomas Merton and James Laughlin: Selected Letters.
Ltrs: Leclercq	Survival or Prophecy? The Letters of Merton and Jean Leclercq.
Ltrs: RtoJ	The Road to Joy: Letters to New and Old Friends.
Ltrs: Ruether	Letters of Merton and Rosemary Radford Ruether.
Ltrs: SofC	The School of Charity. Letters on Religious Renewal.
Ltrs: WtoF	Witness to Freedom: The Letters of Merton in Times of Crisis.

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