21 Quotes by Ernesto Cardenal

Corporations growing like a carcinoma.

Las personas son palabras. Y así uno no es si no es diálogo.[...]Las personas son diálogo, digo,si no sus palabras no tocarían nada,como ondas en el cosmos no captadas por ningún radio,como comunicaciones a planetas deshabitados,o gritar en el vacío lunar o llamar por teléfono a una casa sin nadie.(La persona sola no existe.) Te repito, mi amor: Yo soy tú y tú eres yo. Yo soy: amor.

Al perderte...Al perderte yo a tiTu y yo hemos perdido:Yo por que tú erasLo que yo más amabaY tú por que yo eraEl que te amaba más.Pero de nosotros dosTú pierdes más que yo:Porque yo podré amar a otrosComo te amaba a ti,Pero a ti no te amaránComo te amaba yo.

... 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.

LIFE IS SUBVERSIVE

... 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.

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.

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.

Slogan-making is not poetry.