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 am not interested in poetry for poetry's sake.

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.

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

All human eyes have longing in them.

I am not interested in an economic liberation of man without the liberation of the whole man.