| Author Quoted | Francis, Saint |
| Title Quoted | little flowers of St. Francis. The mirror of perfection. The life of St. Francis |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1940/05/21 |
| Imprint | London [etc.] : Dent [etc.]. [1934] |
| Quotation | Most of the time wrote and wrote: a Journal, longhand, in a ledger. A novel that has perplexed three publishers without any result. And also I read. Pascal, The Little Flowers and Rule of Saint Francis; Lorca; Rilke; Imitation of Christ; Saint John of the Cross and also William Saroyan, when I was too tired to read the hard stuff. |
| 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. 220 |
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