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19 The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton, op. cit., p. 139. In these lines one can clearly see the influence of William Blake on the poetry of Thomas Merton. The English mystic wrote a poem entitled “Contemplation” which shares thematic and symbolic similarities with the poem we have just quoted: “Clamour brawls along the streets, and destruction hovers in the city’s smoke; but on these plains, and in these silent woods, true joys descend: here build thy nest.” William Blake, Selected Poems (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1996), p. 47.
20 This image of the bird has been used by many authors. Let us remember, as an example, the nightingale of Keats, the robin of Emily Dickinson, the sparrow of Wallace Stevens, among others.
21 Thomas Merton, The Wisdom of the Desert (London: Shambhala Pocket Classics, 1994), p. 11.
22 The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton, op. cit., p. 168.
23 Ibid., p. 212.
24 Ibid., p. 197.
25 Ibid., p. 219.
26 Ibid., p. 282.
27 Thomas Merton, A Search for Solitude: The Journals of Thomas Merton, ed. Lawrence S. Cunningham (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1997), p. 57.