| Author Quoted | Paul Claudel |
| Title Quoted | Connaisance de l'Est |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1947/09/07 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : [s.n.]. 1900I |
| Quotation | Paul Claudel's verse bores me but his poetic prose about the Orient is wonderful. I have never read anything as good in its species as Novembre, La Pluie, Le Cocotier, etc. Patrice de la Tour du Pin writes too much: it is too glib. I don't like it and I don't like his way of talking about Christ. It is too silly. |
| Quotation Source | Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk and Writer. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 2, 1941-1952.; Edited by Jonathan Montaldo. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 105 |
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