The openwork beret and the white mane of officiating insurrections. The beard of a prophet who solves his passions in verses and puts words into the atmosphere to say and denounce. He maintains that socialism has not failed because it was never applied, just as he affirms that capitalism has been the last failure because it was suffered. Ernest Cardinal accumulates 95 years. Keep writing. Continue in poetry with insatiable appetite. He survived the collapse of the Sandinista Revolution, of which he was Minister of Culture. And he survived the admonitions of John Paul II, contrary to the Theology of Liberation .

In one volume he has gathered his complete poetry. More than 1,200 pages published in Spain by the Trotta publishing house and where its writing of force, search, trembling, disappointment, enthusiasm, so cosmic and political is displayed. So mystical and voluptuous.

Cardinal speaks little. He has the burned voice of mysticism. He maintains that a regime is not demolished with sonnets, but extending the struggle of the invisible beyond the horizon.

He was born in a high-rise mansion called the House of Lions, the son of a respectable family. But he threw himself into the sky of revolutions already very young, galloped around the world, became inflamed with slogans and Gospel.

The old Cardinal, tired of disappointments, decided not to shut up and keep poetry high . A poetry where desire and eroticism inhabits, but also mystical flame and passion for science. Because of their certainties, they push him to more God.

After 70 years of 'militancy' in poetry, how do you live it today? I live it as usual, as I have lived it all my life. Someone said that you were a "poet always on guard", are you still alert? yes, alert to what is happening on the planet and trying to defend the justice and order that God wants in the world. In what way? With my poetry, which is the only tool I have. And this is refuge or trench? It is by no means a refuge, it will certainly be a trench.What vital moment is it in? In the last moments of my life. I am 95 years old, there is not much future for me. Does the concept of revolution still make sense? Exactly the same. And that is what has moved me for years and years. For me it is the most important thing: the revolution, which also means creating a world for God. Do you feel safe in Nicaragua? For now yes. The Christian mysticism of the 21st century, what will it have to adapt to? The option of union for the poor, it cannot be another mystique other than that, which is in the Gospel. There is no more salvation than that way. How do you believe in God? I believe in him as what he is, love. That was enough for me. And I believe in him because he loves me and I love him too. He is recognized as the prophet of a better world, has the poetic word been his best weapon? I would say that the only weapon I have had, that I have and that I will have as long as I continue here.What impression does the Vatican have that 'President' Benedict XVI presides over? I think that there is a great renovation. It is more: it seems to me that there is a kind of miracle in the Vatican. The revolution that Pope Francis is propitiating in Catholicism is extraordinary. And not only in the Vatican, but also in the world. Love, sex and eroticism have also been part of his poetic adventure. And from his biography. Is that so? Yes, a lot. Of all that there was and there is a lot in my writing and somewhere else ... But it was later replaced by the love of God. Is your commitment to God also part of your political commitment? Yes and no. I have no commitment to anything in politics, my commitment is exclusively with God but also with my fighting partners. Physicist Paul Davis said that "science is a path to God safer than religion." Do you agree? I agree. Religion has separated many peoples and science has united them. That is something that we must keep in mind more than what is done today. His work has an incessant search will: in nature, in the cosmos, in science, in others ... For me this is a miracle. I have a hard time writing, I never thought I could be the author of a few books even. And then I gave up writing to enter a Trappist monastery that is antiliterary. It was a renunciation I made for God. It seems to me that it was like an award that God gave me for what I gave up making now that I can write so much and so much. I feel gratitude. And after life, what can there be? Naturally there is death, which is another life. A better life.

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