Quotes by Ernesto Cardenal

About Ernesto Cardenal:

Ernesto Cardenal Martínez is a Nicaraguan Catholic priest, poet and politician. He is a liberation theologian and the founder of the primitivist art community in the Solentiname Islands, where he lived for more than ten years (1965–1977). A member of the Nicaraguan Sandinistas, a party he has since left, he was Nicaragua's minister of culture from 1979 to 1987.
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... 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

... 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

Al perderte... Al perderte yo a ti Tu y yo hemos perdido: Yo por que tú eras Lo que yo más amaba Y tú por que yo era El que te amaba más. Pero de nosotros dos Tú pierdes más que yo: Porque yo podré amar a otros Como te amaba a ti, Pero a ti no...

Ernesto Cardenal

Author Bio

  • NameErnesto Cardenal
  • DescriptionNicaraguan priest and politician
  • BornJanuary 20, 1925
  • CountryNicaragua
  • ProfessionPoet; Catholic Priest; Sculptor; Painter
  • AwardsOrder Of Augusto César Sandino; Peace Prize Of The German Book Trade; ; Austrian Decoration For Science And Art; ;