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Date [Source / Page]Author QuotedTitle QuotedQuotation by Merton
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1958/12/06
[Ltrs: CforT p. 54]
Czeslaw MiloszCaptive Mind Having read your remarkable book The Captive Mind I find it necessary to write to you, as without your help I ..
1959/02/28
[Ltrs: CforT p. 56-57]
Paul ClaudelJeanne d'Arc au bûcher There is something much too mental and abstract, something too parochial about a great deal of Catholic though..
1959/05/21
[Ltrs: CforT p. 59]
Czeslaw MiloszSeizure of Power Now about your own books. I suppose it is not strange that your younger earthy and cosmic self should be so sh..
1959/05/21
[Ltrs: CforT p. 59]
Czeslaw MiloszSur les bords de l'Issa Now about your own books. I suppose it is not strange that your younger earthy and cosmic self should be so sh..
1959/05/21
[Ltrs: CforT p. 58]
Lional Mordecai TrillingBroken Mirror: A Collection of Writings from Contemporary Poland / edited by Pawel Mayewski Reading The Broken Mirror, I was moved by the sense of real kinship with most of the writers. Underneath the i..
1959/05/21
[Ltrs: CforT p. 61]
Nicolai BerdyaevMeaning of Creation Yet I am very taken with Berdyaev. He is certainly too glib. His explanations and intuitions come up with a su..
1959/05/21
[Ltrs: CforT p. 61]
Nikolai Alexandrovich BerdyaevSolitude and Society Yet I am very taken with Berdyaev. He is certainly too glib. His explanations and intuitions come up with a su..
1960/05/06
[Ltrs: CforT p. 66]
Albert Camuschute, recit At the same time I enjoy and respect Camus, and think I understand him. What you said about La Chute struck me..
1960/05/06
[Ltrs: CforT p. 67]
Jean Paul SartreHuis Clos I do not have much interest in Sartre, he puts me to sleep, as if he were deliberately dull: assommant is a mu..
1960/05/06
[Ltrs: CforT p. 67]
Jean Paul Sartrenausee : roman I do not have much interest in Sartre, he puts me to sleep, as if he were deliberately dull: assommant is a mu..
1960/05/06
[Ltrs: CforT p. 68]
Robert LaxCircus of the Sun I wish you could see one good book, though, that is unknown, by my friend Robert Lax"”The Circus of the Sun. I..
1961/03/28
[Ltrs: CforT p. 74]
Czeslaw MiloszCaptive Mind This is just an added note to the longer letter I mailed this morning. Don't be perturbed about The Captive Mi..
1963/11/11
[Ltrs: CforT p. 82]
Jose Maria GironellaOne Million Dead I agree with you on your dislike of fiction and can't read most novels even when I try, but now I am well into..
1963/11/11
[Ltrs: CforT p. 81]
Quintus HoraceOdes I am glad you have been working on [Robinson] Jeffers. I can see what would attract you in him, though I have ..
1963/11/11
[Ltrs: CforT p. 81]
VirgilGeorgics I am glad you have been working on [Robinson] Jeffers. I can see what would attract you in him, though I have ..
1964/12/19
[Ltrs: CforT p. 83]
Czeslaw MiloszPostwar Polish Poetry: An Anthology Just a word to wish you the blessings of the holy season and to say I have recently written to Anne Freedgood ..

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.