| Author Quoted | John of the Cross |
| Title Quoted | Cántico espiritual / Saint John of the Cross ; según el ms. de las Madres carmelitas de Jaen ; ed. y notas de M. Martínez Burgos |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1941/06/26 |
| Imprint | Madrid : Espasa-Calpe. 1936 |
| Quotation | The other night I read some of Saint John of the Cross' Cantico Espiritual which I understood much better than last spring (1940) in Havana. Also, I realized it is a much better book than I thought then. The opening is wonderful. |
| Quotation Source | Run to the mountain: The Story of a Vocation. The journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 1, 1939-1941.; Edited by Patrick Hart, O.C.S.O. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1995, p. 377 |
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