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.

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

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

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

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.

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.