Ernesto Cardenal Quotes
We turn outward, attracted by the beauty we see in created things without realizing that they are only a reflection of the real beauty. And the real beauty is within us.
I think that the proclamation of the Gospel is sometimes nearer to an atheistic point of view than to traditional religious attitudes.
Like a lover who spends all his time thinking of his distant love, God has been thinking of me since before I was born, for all eternity.
We all share in the same cosmic rhythm... For all natural laws are like the rhythm of the strings of the harp.
What Marxism calls atheism is basically the negation of an idol, which sometimes bears the name of God.
I speak of the current civilization and I consider her not as a symbol but as victim-victim, really, of the commercialization, of the falsification of this real world. That is my theme.
God may do something silly at any time, because, like any lover, God does not reason. God is drunk with love.
I am not interested in an economic liberation of man without the liberation of the whole man.
I myself have never called what I write anti-poetry. I also think that my poetry should not be only known as the poetry of Ernesto Cardenal but rather as Nicaraguan poetry.
According to some liberation theologians atheism is not the cause of the conflict between Christianity and Marxism, but is rather the link between them.
I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.
My poetry is not lyric. The epigrams are lyric because they come from my youthful period of lyricism, but my other poetry is not lyric.
... 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.
