| Author Quoted | John Milton |
| Title Quoted | Paradise Lost |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1966/11/04 |
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| Quotation | In these circumstances, readings on Paradise Lost have been deeply moving and magnificent. At times I have felt that Milton is the one who really knows the world as it is. M. and I are so much, in so many ways, Eve and Adam. One thing I am grateful for: this thing of having made with her a world of reality that is our own and subsists in and by and for us. A world of love which is the real world - because it is a world of choice, in which we have decided to be essential to each other's meaning, each other's grasp of everything else. It is as if we were married. |
| Quotation Source | Learning to love: exploring solitude and freedom. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 6, 1966-1967.; Edited by Christine M. Bochen. / [San Francisco] : HarperCollins. 1997, p. 157 |
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