Quotes by Alberto Caeiro

“I dont regret anything I was before because I still am.I only regret not having loved you.Put your hands in mineAnd lets be quiet, surrounded by life.”

“The river of my village doesnt make you think about anything.When youre at its bank youre only at its bank.”

“I dont know what understanding myself is. I dont look inside.I dont believe I exist behind myself.”

“Now I sense the perfume of flowers like seeing a new thing.I know they smell just as well as I know I existed.Theyre things known from the outside.But now I know with my breathing from the back of ...”

“Yes: I exist inside my body.Im not carrying the sun and the moon in my pocket.I dont want to conquer worlds because I slept badly,And I dont want to eat the world for breakfast because I have a sto...”

“I dont have a philosophy: I have senses...If I talk about Nature, its not because I know what it is,But because I love it, and thats why I love it,Because when you love you never know what you love...”

“Its an already inside outside,The philosophers say its the soulBut its not the soul: its the animal or the man itselfIn its way of existing.”

“Shes a manner of speaking.Even the flowers dont come back, or the green leaves.There are new flowers, new green leaves.There are other beautiful days.Nothing comes back, nothing repeats itself, bec...”

“To love is to think.And I almost forget to feel only from thinking about her.I dont know what I want at all, even from her, and I dont think about anything but her.I have a great animated distracti...”

“What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.”

“If I knew I was going to die tomorrow,And Spring came the day after tomorrow,I would die peacefully, because it came the day after tomorrow.If thats its time, when else should it come?I like it tha...”

“Im glad I see with my eyes and not the pages Ive read.”

“I'm one of my sensations.”

“Accept the universeAs the gods gave it to you.If the gods wanted to give you something elseTheyd have done it.If there are other matters and other worldsThere are.”

“And since todays all there is for now, thats everything.Who knows if Ill be dead the day after tomorrow?If Im dead the day after tomorrow, the thunderstorm day after tomorrowWill be another thunder...”

“Its stranger than every strangenessAnd the dreams of all the poetsAnd the thoughts of all the philosophers,That things are really what they seem to beAnd theres nothing to understand.”

“The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset.But what does someone who hates and loves want with a sunset?”

“I think about this, not like someone thinking, but like someone breathing,And I look at flowers and I smile...I dont know if they understand meOr if I understand them,But I know the truth is in the...”

“Live, you say, in the present;Live only in the present.But I dont want the present, I want reality;I want things that exist, not time that measures them.What is the present?Its something relative t...”

“He should be happy because he can think about the unhappiness of others!Hes stupid if he doesnt know other peoples unhappiness is theirs,And isnt cured from the outside,Because suffering isnt like ...”