| Author Quoted | Thomas a Kempis |
| Title Quoted | Imitation of Christ |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1949/03/06 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : [s.n.]. 1441 |
| Quotation | Yesterday Seeds of Contemplation arrived and it is very handsome. The best job of printing that has ever been done on any book by me. I can hardly keep my hands off it.... Laughlin tells me a book club is taking it and advertising it as a "streamlined Imitation of Christ." God forgive me. It is more like Swift than Thomas à Kempis. The Passion and Precious Blood of Christ are too little in the book"”only hinted at here and there. Therefore the book is cold and cerebral. |
| 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. 287 |
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