I speak of the current civilization and I consider her not as a symbol but as victim-victim, really, of the commercialization, of the falsification of this real world. That is my theme.

I am not interested in poetry for poetry's sake.

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

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.

We turn outward, attracted by the beauty we see in created things without realizing that they are only a reflection of the real beauty. And the real beauty is within us.

We all share in the same cosmic rhythm... For all natural laws are like the rhythm of the strings of the harp.