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“God may do something silly at any time, because, like any lover, God does not reason. God is drunk with love.” quote by Ernesto Cardenal — Download Open image

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

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

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“... It seems to me / the the great bards of the 20th century are in Publicity / those Keatses and Shelleys singing the Colgate smile / Cosmic Coca-Cola, the pause the refreshes, / the make of car that will take us to the land of happiness.”

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

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

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