Zero hour and other documentary poems Quotes

“... 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.
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― Ernesto Cardenal, Zero hour and other documentary poems

“LIFE IS SUBVERSIVE”
― Ernesto Cardenal, Zero hour and other documentary poems

“... 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, Zero hour and other documentary poems

“If the history of humanity were 24 hours
let's say
private property, classes, division
into rich and poor: these would be the last 10 minutes.
INJUSTICE/ the last 10 minutes.
(The top layer of earth with Mayan pottery and Goodyear tires.)
So all the great subconscious
is Communist”
― Ernesto Cardenal, Zero hour and other documentary poems