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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.