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 o…

- Ernesto Cardenal

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.

- Ernesto Cardenal

There is however difference between the theology of liberation and traditional theology, the latter being based primarily On the Word of God made inc…

- Ernesto Cardenal

All human eyes have longing in them.

- Ernesto Cardenal

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

- Ernesto Cardenal

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

- Ernesto Cardenal

The revolution in Nicaragua was the first of its kind to be accomplished with the mass support of Christians, a fact that cannot fail to influence th…

- Ernesto Cardenal

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

- Ernesto Cardenal

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.

- Ernesto Cardenal