“I love flowers for being flowers, directly. And I love trees for being trees without my thought.” — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“Things don’t have significance: they only have existence. Things are the only hidden meaning of things.” — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“I don’t know what understanding myself is. I don’t look inside. I don’t believe I exist behind myself.” — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“All beings exist and nothing else And that’s why they’re called beings” — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“On a whitely cloudy day I get sad, almost afraid, And I begin to meditate about problems I make up.” — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“Yes, this is what my senses alone have learned:— Things don’t have significance: they only have existence. Things are the only hidden… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“It’s an already inside outside, The philosophers say it’s the soul But it’s not the soul: it’s the animal or the man… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“Now I sense the perfume of flowers like seeing a new thing. I know they smell just as well as I know… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“I don’t always feel what I know I should feel. My thought crosses the river I swim very slowly Because the suit… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“I’m in no hurry. What for? The sun and moon aren’t in a hurry: they’re right. Hurrying is believing people can get… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“I don’t regret anything I was before because I still am. I only regret not having loved you. Put your hands in… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“If science wants to be truthful, What science is more truthful than the science of things without science? I close my eyes… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“She’s a manner of speaking. Even the flowers don’t come back, or the green leaves. There are new flowers, new green leaves.… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“If I die very young, hear this: I was never anything but a kid playing. I was a heathen like the sun… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“Yes: I exist inside my body. I’m not carrying the sun and the moon in my pocket. I don’t want to conquer… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“There are no roses in my yard: what wind brought you? But I suddenly come from far away. I was sick for… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“I saw that there is no Nature, That Nature doesn’t exist, That there are hills, valleys, plains, That there are trees, flowers,… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“Praise be to God I’m not good, And have the natural egotism of flowers And rivers following their bed Preoccupied without knowing… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“A kid thinking about fairy tales and believing in fairy tales Acts like a sick god, but like a god. Because even… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“Live, you say, in the present; Live only in the present. But I don’t want the present, I want reality; I want… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“And since today’s all there is for now, that’s everything. Who knows if I’ll be dead the day after tomorrow? If I’m… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“That thing over there was more there than it’s there! Yes, sometimes I cry about the perfect body that doesn’t exist. But… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“Even so, I’m somebody. I’m the Discoverer of Nature. I’m the Argonaut of true sensations. I bring a new Universe to the Universe Because… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share
“the world wasn't made for us to think about it (to think is to have eyes that aren't well) but to look at it… — alberto caeiro Copy Share
“And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting — In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.” — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share
“I’m a keeper of flocks. The flock is my thoughts And my thoughts are all sensations. I think with my eyes and with my… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share
“But if God is the trees and the flowers And the hills and the moonlight and the sun, Why should I call him God?… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share
“A stagecoach passed by on the road and went on; And the road didn’t become more beautiful or even more ugly. That’s human action… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share
“There are no roses in my yard: what wind brought you? But I suddenly come from far away. I was sick for a moment.… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share
“But if God is the flowers and the trees And the hills and the sun and the moonlight, Then I believe in him, Then… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share
“I was born subject like others to errors and defects, But never to the error of wanting to understand too much, Never to the… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share
“My look blue as the sky Is as calm as water in the sun. It’s that way, blue and calm, Because it doesn’t question… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share
“I don’t regret anything I was before because I still am. I only regret not having loved you. Put your hands in mine And… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share
“If I die very young, hear this: I was never anything but a kid playing. I was a heathen like the sun and the… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share
“Now I sense the perfume of flowers like seeing a new thing. I know they smell just as well as I know I existed.… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share
“The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset. But what does someone who hates and loves want with a sunset?” — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share
