| Author Quoted | Daniel Berrigan S.J. |
| Title Quoted | World for Wedding Ring |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1962/11/27 |
| Imprint | New York : Macmillan Company. 1962 |
| Quotation | Just got your blanks from the Goggenbuch Stipend House. I will write you up a litany of praises that will knock them off their chairs. I will tell them you are Scipio, Cicero, John O'Hara and twenty-five other people, including Berrigan. Your last book of poems deserves half a dozen Guggenheims. It is really splendid, you have really got in there now: the others I always felt were sort of tending in the right direction, now you are on your beam. I didn't find any cliches anywhere, and that in a book by a Catholic and a religious is a major miracle. It is terse and even Zen-like, and it is the integrity of the experience that above all comes through. Great, man, great. |
| Quotation Source | The Hidden Ground of Love: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Experience and Social Concerns.; Selected and edited by William H. Shannon. / New York : Farrar Straus Giroux. 1985, p. 75 |
| Letter to | Daniel Berrigan |
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