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Date [Source / Page]
Author Quoted
Title Quoted
Quotation by Merton
[link to full quote]
1938/08/11
[
Ltrs: RtoJ p. 142-43
]
Bhagavad Gita
Truthfully I have an enormous obscure subtle thesis that Blake is all full of Indian and Chinese theories of a..
1938/08/11
[
Ltrs: RtoJ p. 144
]
James Joyce
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
I have read Portrait of the Artist which is certainly a remarkable fine book, and the best thing I have read i..
1938/08/11
[
Ltrs: RtoJ p. 144
]
James Joyce
Ulysses
I have read Portrait of the Artist which is certainly a remarkable fine book, and the best thing I have read i..
1939/08/21
[
Ltrs: RtoJ p. 147
]
Valery Larbaud
Amants Heureux Amants
I found this French guy Valery Larbaud to be some good guy too. I just got his novel, Amants Heureux Amants, i..
1939/10/00
[
Ltrs: RtoJ p. 151
]
Thomas Aquinas
De Ente et Essentia
One of the most extraordinarily difficult things I have ever tried to do is understand St. Thomas' De Ente et ..
1942/11/21
[
Ltrs: RtoJ p. 166
]
Teresa of Avila
Autobiography
All these things I read in St. Augustine: the Commentary on the Psalms, the Book on the Sermons on the Mount, ..
1947/05/00
[
Ltrs: RtoJ p. 170
]
Jan Ruusbroec
Oeuvres de Ruysbroeck l'admirable / Jan van Ruusbroec ; trad. du flamand par les Benedictins de Saint-Paul de Wisques par Ernest Hello
The autobiography [The Seven Storey Mountain] comes along slow. Haven't seen page proofs. Bob Giroux must be v..
1947/05/00
[
Ltrs: RtoJ p. 170
]
Saint John of the Cross
complete works of Saint John of the Cross, doctor of the church / Saint John of the Cross ; transl. from the critical edition of P. Silverio de Santa Teresa, and ed. by E. Allison Peers
The autobiography [The Seven Storey Mountain] comes along slow. Haven't seen page proofs. Bob Giroux must be v..
1947/05/00
[
Ltrs: RtoJ p. 170
]
T.S. Eliot
Four Quartets
The autobiography [The Seven Storey Mountain] comes along slow. Haven't seen page proofs. Bob Giroux must be v..
Abbreviations ▲
Source of Merton's Quotation and Citation
Ltrs: CforT
The Courage for Truth: Letters of Thomas Merton to Writers.
Ltrs: Giroux
Letters of Robert Giroux and Thomas Merton.
Ltrs: Hammer
The Letters of Merton and Victor and Carolyn Hammer.
Ltrs: HGL
The Hidden Ground of Love.
Ltrs: Laughlin
Thomas Merton and James Laughlin: Selected Letters.
Ltrs: Leclercq
Survival or Prophecy? The Letters of Merton and Jean Leclercq.
Ltrs: RtoJ
The Road to Joy: Letters to New and Old Friends.
Ltrs: Ruether
Letters of Merton and Rosemary Radford Ruether.
Ltrs: SofC
The School of Charity. Letters on Religious Renewal.
Ltrs: WtoF
Witness to Freedom: The Letters of Merton in Times of Crisis.