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I am not interested in poetry for poetry's sake. — Ernesto Cardenal

(At the end of the nineteenth century, economist Charlotte Perkins Gilman complained that housework was the only job that had not been modernized.) — Ann Jones

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

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

I'll follow, if you give the sign. — Ruth Padel

I do not wish to help Jeremy Clarkson be amusing in the event of my death. — James May

I tell the truth, and truth is the ultimate defense against libel. — Tucker Max

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

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

Why are you helping me? (Fury)
I don't know. Apparently I'm having a moment of extreme stupidity. (Angelia) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Slogan-making is not poetry. — Ernesto Cardenal

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

And when you're slapped you'll take it and like it." - Detective Sam Spade — Dashiell Hammett

Somehow, when you're knocked senseless, the pain doesn't show up till later. Then it's a cold, heartless bitch. — Darynda Jones

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

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

All human eyes have longing in them. — Ernesto Cardenal

Ideas are like bananas. That bananas grow only in tropical regions doesn't make them any less delicious in Scandinavia. — Eric Weiner

He had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon. — Clive Barker

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