“I love flowers for being flowers, directly. And I love trees for being trees without my thought.” — 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
“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
“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
“Night doesn’t fall for my eyes But my idea of the night is that it falls for my eyes. Beyond my thinking… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“Nothing at all reminds us of something else when we pay attention to it. Each thing only reminds us of what it… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“Something changed in part of reality — my knees and my hands. What science has knowledge for this? The blind man goes… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
