Poetry Quote by Ernesto Cardenal Download Open image “Slogan-making is not poetry.” — Ernesto Cardenal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry Slogans
In order for poetry to exist there has to be not-poetry to contrast it with. — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
According to some liberation theologians atheism is not the cause of the conflict between Christianity and Marxism, but is rather the link between them. — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
“... You can't be with God and be neutral. / True contemplation is resistance. And poetry, / gazing at clouds is resistance I found out in jail. ” — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
We turn outward, attracted by the beauty we see in created things without realizing that they are only a reflection of the real beauty.… — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
Some liberation theologians maintain that they are not influenced by Marxist philosophy at all. In this case it is necessary to discern whether they… — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
What Marxism calls atheism is basically the negation of an idol, which sometimes bears the name of God. — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
My poetry is not lyric. The epigrams are lyric because they come from my youthful period of lyricism, but my other poetry is not… — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
There is however difference between the theology of liberation and traditional theology, the latter being based primarily On the Word of God made incarnate… — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
“... It seems to me / the the great bards of the 20th century are in Publicity / those Keatses and Shelleys singing the… — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
I think that the proclamation of the Gospel is sometimes nearer to an atheistic point of view than to traditional religious attitudes. — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry. — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
