| Author Quoted | |
| Title Quoted | Koran |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1960/08/07 |
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| Quotation | "Parmi les lignes il y a les vaisseaux qui, sur la mer, sont comme dans le desert." ["Among the many vessels are boats that seem to be in the desert when they are on the open sea."] (Koran Sour. XLII-31) A line from a French translation of the Koran! It reads surprisingly like St.- John Perse. Loneliness, dependence, confidence, isolated journeys of the ships, held in God's hand, on the water, as camels in the desert. |
| 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. 29 |
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