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.

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

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.

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 speak of the current civilization and I consider her not as a symbol but as victim-victim, really, of the commercialization, of the falsification of this real world. That is my theme.

All human eyes have longing in them.

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

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

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

True kindness is an anchor that drops deep into the heart and you feel it while it’s dropping. Meanwhile, untrue kindness is merely a condition of the face.

If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them.

Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Miss, n. A title which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market.

I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.

I enjoy having some boundaries to work within. That's why I generally don't like alternate tunings and stuff like that. I like the boundaries of regular tunings.

Nineteen percent of doctors say that they'd be able to give their patients a lethal injection. But they also went on to say that the patient would have to be really, really behind on payments.

[ Adult novels] was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers.

Shut up Jas, you are not Baby Jesus