Occupation: Priest Birth: January 20, 1925
I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry..
All human eyes have longing in them..
According to some liberation theologians atheism is not the cause of the conflict between Christianity and Marxism, but is rather the link between th….
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 o….
There is however difference between the theology of liberation and traditional theology, the latter being based primarily On the Word of God made inc….
I think that the proclamation of the Gospel is sometimes nearer to an atheistic point of view than to traditional religious attitudes..
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 th….
We all share in the same cosmic rhythm... For all natural laws are like the rhythm of the strings of the harp..
God may do something silly at any time, because, like any lover, God does not reason. God is drunk with love..
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..
I am not interested in poetry for poetry's sake..
What Marxism calls atheism is basically the negation of an idol, which sometimes bears the name of God..
I am not interested in an economic liberation of man without the liberation of the whole man..
Some liberation theologians maintain that they are not influenced by Marxist philosophy at all. In this case it is necessary to discern whether they ….
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 ….
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 rathe….
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..
Slogan-making is not poetry..