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

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.

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

According to some liberation theologians atheism is not the cause of the conflict between Christianity and Marxism, but is rather the link between them.

All human eyes have longing in them.

Slogan-making is not poetry.