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 think that the proclamation of the Gospel is sometimes nearer to an atheistic point of view than to traditional religious attitudes.

I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.

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 rather as Nicaraguan poetry.

God may do something silly at any time, because, like any lover, God does not reason. God is drunk with love.

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.