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.

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

The revolution in Nicaragua was the first of its kind to be accomplished with the mass support of Christians, a fact that cannot fail to influence the further development of revolutionary movements in the whole of Latin America, whose inhabitants are predominantly Christian.

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

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

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.