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8 The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton, op. cit., p. 20.
9 Ibid., p. 8.
10 Thomas Merton, Raids on the Unspeakable, op. cit., p. 19.
11 The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton, op. cit., p. 24.
12 As Ross Labrie has pointed out, all these compositions where written in a period of great poetic fertility which might have coincided with the excitement that preceded his decision to enter Gethsemani. See Ross Labrie, The Art of Thomas Merton (Texas: The Texas Christian University Press, 1979), p. 111.
13 The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton, op. cit., pp. 30-31.
14 Ibid., p. 35.
15 The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton (New York: New Directions, 1975), pp. 154-155.
16 The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton, op. cit., p. 55.
17 Fernando Beltrán Llavador, Thomas Merton: la contemplación en la acción (Madrid: San Pablo, 1996), p. 73.
18 We agree with Robert Waldron when he writes that “his poetry and prose serve as a bell summoning people to enter the waters of the psyche and embark on their own inner journey, one that calls every person ‘home’ to the Christ within.” Robert Waldron, “Merton’s Bells: A Clarion Call to Wholeness,” The Merton Seasonal, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Winter 1993), p. 28.