Ernesto Cardenal

According to some liberation theologians atheism is not the cause of the conflict between Christianity and Marxism, but is rather the link…

— Ernesto Cardenal

“... You can't be with God and be neutral. / True contemplation is resistance. And poetry, / gazing at clouds is resistance…

— Ernesto Cardenal

We turn outward, attracted by the beauty we see in created things without realizing that they are only a reflection of the…

— Ernesto Cardenal

Some liberation theologians maintain that they are not influenced by Marxist philosophy at all. In this case it is necessary to discern…

— Ernesto Cardenal

What Marxism calls atheism is basically the negation of an idol, which sometimes bears the name of God.

— Ernesto Cardenal

My poetry is not lyric. The epigrams are lyric because they come from my youthful period of lyricism, but my other poetry…

— Ernesto Cardenal

All human eyes have longing in them.

— Ernesto Cardenal

I am not interested in poetry for poetry's sake.

— Ernesto Cardenal

There is however difference between the theology of liberation and traditional theology, the latter being based primarily On the Word of God…

— Ernesto Cardenal

“... It seems to me / the the great bards of the 20th century are in Publicity / those Keatses and Shelleys…

— Ernesto Cardenal

I think that the proclamation of the Gospel is sometimes nearer to an atheistic point of view than to traditional religious attitudes.

— Ernesto Cardenal

I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.

— Ernesto Cardenal

I am not interested in an economic liberation of man without the liberation of the whole man.

— Ernesto Cardenal

“LIFE IS SUBVERSIVE”

— Ernesto Cardenal

I myself have never called what I write anti-poetry. I also think that my poetry should not be only known as the…

— Ernesto Cardenal

Like a lover who spends all his time thinking of his distant love, God has been thinking of me since before I…

— Ernesto Cardenal

God may do something silly at any time, because, like any lover, God does not reason. God is drunk with love.

— Ernesto Cardenal

We all share in the same cosmic rhythm... For all natural laws are like the rhythm of the strings of the harp.

— Ernesto Cardenal

Slogan-making is not poetry.

— Ernesto Cardenal

The revolution in Nicaragua was the first of its kind to be accomplished with the mass support of Christians, a fact that…

— Ernesto Cardenal

I speak of the current civilization and I consider her not as a symbol but as victim-victim, really, of the commercialization, of…

— Ernesto Cardenal