Poetry
- Thirty Poems. New Directions. 1944. OCLC 1911736.
- A Man in the Divided Sea. New Directions. 1946. OCLC 1454855.
- The Tears of the Blind Lions. New Directions. 1949. OCLC 224716.
- The Strange Islands: Poems. New Directions. 1957. OCLC 289506.
- Selected Poems. J. Laughlin. 1959. OCLC 123120117.
- Emblems of a Season of Fury. New Directions. 1963. OCLC 289508.
- Monks Pond: No. 1, 1968. 1968. OCLC 170840170.
- Cables to the Ace. New Directions. 1968. OCLC 439169.
- The Geography of Lograire. New Directions. 1969. OCLC 58131.
- The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton. New Directions. 1977. ISBN 0-8112-0643-2.
- In The Dark Before Dawn: New Selected Poems of Thomas Merton. New Directions. 2005. ISBN 0-8112-1613-6.
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Famous quotes containing the word poetry:
“It is at the same time by poetry and through poetry, by and through music, that the soul glimpses the splendors found behind the tomb; and when an exquisite poem brings tears to one’s eyes, these tears are not the sign of excessive pleasure, they are rather witness to an irritated melancholy, to a condition of nerves, to a nature exiled to imperfection and which would like to seize immediately, on this very earth, a revealed paradise.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
“Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quite well developed civilizations can produce good prose. So don’t think of poetry as a perverse and unnatural way of distorting ordinary prose statements: prose is a much less natural way of speaking than poetry is. If you listen to small children, and to the amount of chanting and singsong in their speech, you’ll see what I mean.”
—Northrop Frye (1912–1991)
“Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)