Quotes About Cardenal

#1. 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.

Ernesto Cardenal

#2. You learn to read so you can identify the reality in which you live, so that you can become a protagonist history rather than a spectator Father Fernando Cardenal

Barbara Kingsolver

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

Ernesto Cardenal

#4. 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.

Ernesto Cardenal

#5. LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Ernesto Cardenal

#7. 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.

Ernesto Cardenal

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

Ernesto Cardenal

#9. LIFE IS SUBVERSIVE

Ernesto Cardenal

#10. 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

#11. 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.

Ernesto Cardenal

#12. Don't let your old ways stop you from making new ones.

Jean Williams

#13. 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

#14. The revolution in Nicaragua was the first of its kind to be accomplished with the mass support of Christians, a fact that cannot fail to influence the further development of revolutionary movements in the whole of Latin America, whose inhabitants are predominantly Christian.

Ernesto Cardenal

#15. A Boat O beautiful was the werewolf in his evil forest. We took him to the carnival and he started crying when he saw the Ferris wheel. Electric green and red tears flowed down his furry cheeks. He looked like a boat out on the dark water.

Richard Brautigan

#16. I simply want to tell the story of my numerous experiments with Truth, and as my life consists of nothing but those experiments; it is true that the story will take the shape of an autobiography.

Mahatma Gandhi

#17. The cooler days have brought a wistful mood upon him. The smell of coalsmoke in the air at night. Old times, dead years. For him such memories are bitter ones.

Cormac McCarthy

#18. I wish I was Bill Murray. I hope everything I've read about evolution is wrong, and I eventually evolve into him. It's one of only three plans I have.

Caitlin Moran

#19. She drank in all their compliments and soon she was full of herself.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#20. In very simple terms, I want you to want to please me.

E.L. James

#21. 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.

Ernesto Cardenal

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

Ernesto Cardenal

#23. What about Ella's nightmares?"
It's Ella, who has been listening quietly, that responds. "I'll tough them out. The next time that big freak gets into my head, I'm going to punch him in the balls."
"Whoa!"
"All right," I say, grinning. "Meeting adjourned.

Pittacus Lore

#24. I looked again at the nighttime view of the city - the view I had never seen before even though it had been there all the time.

Graeme Simsion

#25. Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.

Vincent D'Onofrio

#26. I would do exactly what you are doing: I would talk to everyone I needed to, I would not tell too many people his name. When I was sure," she said, "I would find a quiet way, and I would kill him.

Alice Sebold

#27. When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature.

Walter Darby Bannard

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

Ernesto Cardenal

#29. Slogan-making is not poetry.

Ernesto Cardenal

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

Ernesto Cardenal

#31. 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.

Ernesto Cardenal

#32. All human eyes have longing in them.

Ernesto Cardenal

#33. If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse.

Peire Cardenal

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

Ernesto Cardenal