“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
“He’s taught me everything. He taught me how to look at things. He shows me everything there is in flowers. He shows… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“The river of my village doesn’t make you think about anything. When you’re at its bank you’re only at its bank.” — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“Accept the universe As the gods gave it to you. If the gods wanted to give you something else They’d have done… — 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
“All the evil in the world comes from us bothering with each other, Wanting to do good, wanting to do evil. Our… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“That lady has a piano. It’s nice, but it’s not the running of rivers Or the murmuring trees make .. Who needs… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“A row of trees far away, there on the hillside. But what is it, a row of trees? It’s just trees. Row… — 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… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“He should be happy because he can think about the unhappiness of others! He’s stupid if he doesn’t know other people’s unhappiness… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“What does this think about that? Nothing thinks about anything. Does the earth have consciousness of its stones and plants? If it… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“I don’t bother with rhyme. Rarely Are two trees the same, one beside the other. I think and write like flowers have… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“She goes on with her beautiful hair and mouth like before, I go on like before, alone in the field. It’s like… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“I think about this, not like someone thinking, but like someone breathing, And I look at flowers and I smile... I don’t… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“Sometimes in the evening on Summer days, Even when there’s not a breeze at all, it seems Like there’s a light breeze… — 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
“The Tejo runs down from Spain And the Tejo goes into the sea in Portugal. Everybody knows that. But not many people… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“And sometimes if I want To imagine I’m a lamb (Or a whole flock Spreading out all over the hillside So I… — 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
“The amorous shepherd has lost his staff, And his sheep are straying on the hillside, And he didn’t even play the flute… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“One day when God fell asleep And the Holy Ghost went off flying, He got into a box of miracles and stole… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“But if God is the trees and the flowers And the hills and the moonlight and the sun, Why should I call… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“Between what i see in a field and what I see in another field There passes for a moment the figure of… — 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
“I’m a keeper of flocks. The flock is my thoughts And my thoughts are all sensations. I think with my eyes and… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 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’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either. Nobody goes faster than the legs they have. If where I… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“It’s stranger than every strangeness And the dreams of all the poets And the thoughts of all the philosophers, That things are… — 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
