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.

What Marxism calls atheism is basically the negation of an idol, which sometimes bears the name of God.

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.

My poetry is not lyric. The epigrams are lyric because they come from my youthful period of lyricism, but my other poetry is not lyric.

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.