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“But if God is the flowers and the treesAnd the hills and the sun and the moonlight,Then I believe in him,Then I believe in him all the time,And my whole life is an oration and a mass,And a communio...”
“Im a keeper of flocks.The flock is my thoughtsAnd my thoughts are all sensations.I think with my eyes and with my earsAnd with my hands and feetAnd with my nose and mouth.Thinking about a flower is...”
“And sometimes if I wantTo imagine Im a lamb(Or a whole flockSpreading out all over the hillsideSo I can be a lot of happy things at the same time),Its only because I feel what I write at sunset,Or ...”
“Lets be simple and calm,Like brooks and trees,And God will love us by makingBeautiful things like the trees and brooks for us,And give us greenness in his spring,And a river for us to go to when we...”
“One day when God fell asleepAnd the Holy Ghost went off flying,He got into a box of miracles and stole three.With the first he made it so that no one would know he had run away.With the second he m...”
“Lightly, lightly, very lightly,A wind passes very lightlyAnd goes away, always very lightly.And I dont know what I thinkAnd I dont want to know.”
“If they want me to have mysticism, okay, Ive got it.Im a mystic, but only in my body,My soul is simple and doesnt think.”
“Sometimes in the evening on Summer days,Even when theres not a breeze at all, it seemsLike theres a light breeze blowing for a minuteBut the trees are unmovingIn every leaf of their leavesAnd our f...”
“Yes, this is what my senses alone have learned:Things dont have significance: they only have existence.Things are the only hidden meaning of things.”
“The Tejo runs down from SpainAnd the Tejo goes into the sea in Portugal.Everybody knows that.But not many people know the river of my villageAnd where it comes fromAnd where its going.And so, becau...”
“That lady has a piano.Its nice, but its not the running of riversOr the murmuring trees make ..Who needs a piano?Its better to have earsAnd love Nature.”
“I dont bother with rhyme. RarelyAre two trees the same, one beside the other.I think and write like flowers have colorBut with less perfection in my way of expressing myselfBecause I lack the divin...”
“I don’t have a philosophy: I have senses...If I talk about Nature, it’s not because I know what it is,But because I love it, and that’s why I love it,Because when you love you never know what you l...”
“It’s 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 there’s nothing to understand.”
“I don’t always feel what I know I should feel.My thought crosses the river I swim very slowlyBecause the suit men made it wear weighs it down.”
“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 on the outside world.We take nothing away and we put nothing back, we ...”
“I saw that there is no Nature,That Nature doesn’t exist,That there are hills, valleys, plains,That there are trees, flowers, weeds,That there are rivers and stones,But there is not a whole these be...”
“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 UniverseBecause I bring the Universe to itself.”
“If I could take a bite of the whole worldAnd feel it on my palateI’d be more happy for a minute or so...But I don’t always want to be happy.Sometimes you have to beUnhappy to be natural...Not every...”
“All beings exist and nothing elseAnd that’s why they’re called beings”
