Quote of the Day (Merton)

“Dylan Thomas’s integrity as a poet makes me very ashamed of the verse I have been writing. We who say we love God: why are we not as anxious to be perfect in our art as we pretend to be in our service of God? If we do not try to be perfect in what we write, perhaps it is because we are not writing for God after all.”—Thomas Merton, The Sign of Jonas (1956)