Feeling Quote by Álvaro de Campos

“But what you’re calling poetry is what everything is. It’s not even poetry — it’s seeing. These materialists are blind. You told me they…

— Álvaro de Campos

“Tenho em mim todos os sonhos do mundo”

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“I consider a dream like I consider a shadow,” answered Caeiro, with his usual divine, unexpected promptitude. “A shadow is real, but it’s less…

— Álvaro de Campos

“The Amorous Shepherd is a fruitless interlude, but those few poems are among the world’s greatest love poems, because they’re love poems about love,…

— Álvaro de Campos

“Nothing: a landscape, a glass of wine, a little loveless love, and the vague sadness caused by our understanding nothing and having lost the…

— Álvaro de Campos

“I don’t believe in anything but the existence of my sensations; I have no other certainty, not even of the outer universe conveyed to…

— Álvaro de Campos

“I suddenly asked my master Caeiro, “Are you at peace with yourself?” and he answered, “No, I’m at peace.” It was like the voice…

— Álvaro de Campos

“he woman Caeiro fell in love with. I have no idea who she was, and I intend to never find out, not even out…

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“He possesses the minimum sensibility necessary for his intelligence not to be merely mathematical, the minimum a human being needs so that it can…

— Álvaro de Campos

“I always want to be the thing I feel kinship with... To feel everything in every way, To hold all opinions, To be sincere…

— Álvaro de Campos

“When I’m depressed, I read Caeiro — he’s my fresh air. I become very calm, content, faithful — yes, I find faith in God,…

— Álvaro de Campos

“and the idea of nothingness — the most terrifying of all ideas, when thought of with feeling — has, in my dear master’s work…

— Álvaro de Campos