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