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

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

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

All human eyes have longing in them.

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.

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 an economic liberation of man without the liberation of the whole man.