“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“If I talk about her like she’s a being It’s because talking about her I need to use the language of men… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“If I knew I was going to die tomorrow, And Spring came the day after tomorrow, I would die peacefully, because it… — 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
“I don’t have a philosophy: I have senses... If I talk about Nature, it’s not because I know what it is, But… — 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
“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
