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.

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 do you resist examining up close?How can you ground yourself so you feel safe enough to try?

I leveled the gun and fired until it was empty.

You're different, you know.""Only different from you, " he said. "Not different from me.

Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.

We have art in order not to die of life.

You have to stick up for what you believe in. And that, to me, is the biggest thing you can do about driving inclusion.

One day it's all going to be clear. It's all going to make sense. You're going to be able to say, "So that's why God allowed that in my life!" Until then, God wants you to trust him.

All masters want to appear more brilliant than other people.

Money always flows to the leader... If you want more money, simply become more of a leader.

Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death