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1 This essay is a revised version of an article which was peer-reviewed and selected to be published in the volume Estudios de Traducción, Cultura, Lengua y Literatura, ed. I. Pascua, B. Rey-Jouvin and M. Sarmiento (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2008), pp. 359-373.
2 The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton (New York: New Directions, 1977), p. 2.
3 The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton, op. cit., p. 3.
4 “Beauty is truth, truth is beauty, – that is all/ye know on earth, and all ye need to know,” in The Poems of John Keats, ed. Miriam Allot (London: Longman, 1977), p. 32.
5 Thomas Merton, Raids on the Unspeakable (New York: New Directions, 1966), p. 11.
6 The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton, op. cit., p. 20.
7 Thomas Merton, The Ascent to Truth (Great Britain: Burn & Oates, 1994), p. 10. As the monk pointed out: “Man was made for the highest activity, which is in fact his rest. That activity, which is contemplation, is imminent and it transcends the level of sense and of discourse. Man’s guilty sense of his incapacity for this one deep activity which is the reason of his very existence, is precisely what drives him to seek oblivion in exterior motion and desire […] He has but to remain busy with trifles.” He finishes this reflection quoting Pascal’s wise words: “Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries and yet it is, itself, the greatest of our miseries.” Blaise Pascal quoted by Thomas Merton, The Ascent to Truth, op. cit., pp. 19-20.