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.

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 am not interested in poetry for poetry's sake.

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

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.

According to some liberation theologians atheism is not the cause of the conflict between Christianity and Marxism, but is rather the link between them.