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.
Ernesto CardenalAccording to some liberation theologians atheism is not the cause of the conflict between Christianity and Marxism, but is rather the link between them.
Ernesto CardenalI 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.
Ernesto CardenalI think that the proclamation of the Gospel is sometimes nearer to an atheistic point of view than to traditional religious attitudes.
Ernesto Cardenal