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Author QuotedLouis Zukofsky
Title QuotedPrepositions: The Collected Critical Essays of Louis Zukofsky
Date (Year/Month/Day)1967/12/28
Imprint[S.l.] : [s.n.]. 1968
QuotationEven in the woods you cannot have quiet unless you determine not to have a shadow anymore and not to cast any. How? So many lovely things in "A" 18, I could see Chagall coming long before he appeared, announced pages ahead by Chagall fiddles, etc. And also Prepositions. It finally reached me and I went to the Chaplin bit like iron filings to the magnet, remembering everything perfectly. But I have read it all, I do not get carried away by it like by the "A's."
Quotation SourceThe Courage for Truth: Letters of Thomas Merton to Writers.; Selected and edited by Christine M. Bochen. / New York : Farrar Straus Giroux. 1993, p. 295
Letter toLouis Zukofsky
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