“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
“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
“But if God is the flowers and the trees And the hills and the sun and the moonlight, Then I believe in… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“I was born subject like others to errors and defects, But never to the error of wanting to understand too much, Never… — 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
“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
“Let’s be simple and calm, Like brooks and trees, And God will love us by making Beautiful things like the trees and… — 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 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
“If I could take a bite of the whole world And feel it on my palate I’d be more happy for a… — 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
“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
“Also at times, on the surface of streams, Water?bubbles form And grow and burst And have no meaning at all Except that… — 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
“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
“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
“Lightly, lightly, very lightly, A wind passes very lightly And goes away, always very lightly. And I don’t know what I think… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“I love flowers for being flowers, directly. And I love trees for being trees without my thought.” — 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
“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
“If they want me to have mysticism, okay, I’ve got it. I’m a mystic, but only in my body, My soul is… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“Let’s only care about the place where we are. There’s beauty enough in being here and not anywhere else. If there’s someone… — 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 Image
“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 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
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
