Quotes by Alberto Caeiro

“I dont 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 didnt become more beautiful or even more ugly.Thats human action on the outside world.We take nothing away and we put nothing back, we pa...”

“Also at times, on the surface of streams,Water?bubbles formAnd grow and burstAnd have no meaning at allExcept that theyre water?bubblesGrowing and bursting.”

“There are no roses in my yard: what wind brought you?But I suddenly come from far away. I was sick for a moment.No wind whatsoever brought you now.Now youre here.What you were isnt you, or else the...”

“I saw that there is no Nature,That Nature doesnt 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 bel...”

“I pass and I stay, like the Universe.”

“Everythings different from us. Thats why everything exists.”

“A row of trees far away, there on the hillside.But what is it, a row of trees? Its just trees.Row and the plural trees arent things, theyre names.”

“If science wants to be truthful,What science is more truthful than the science of things without science?I close my eyes and the hard earth where Im lyingHas a reality so real even my back feels it...”

“I was born subject like others to errors and defects,But never to the error of wanting to understand too much,Never to the error of wanting to understand only with the intellect..Never to the defec...”

“Between what i see in a field and what I see in another fieldThere passes for a moment the figure of a man.His steps go with him in the same reality,But I look at him and them, and theyre two thing...”

“The amorous shepherd has lost his staff,And his sheep are straying on the hillside,And he didnt even play the flute he brought to play because he was thinking so much.No one came to him or went awa...”

“All the evil in the world comes from us bothering with each other,Wanting to do good, wanting to do evil.Our soul and the sky and the earth are enough for us.To want more is to lose this, and be un...”

“Something changed in part of reality my knees and my hands.What science has knowledge for this?The blind man goes on his way and I dont make any more gestures.Its already not the same time, or the...”

“Even so, Im somebody.Im the Discoverer of Nature.Im 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 palateId be more happy for a minute or so...But I dont always want to be happy.Sometimes you have to beUnhappy to be natural...Not every d...”

“Night doesnt fall for my eyesBut my idea of the night is that it falls for my eyes.Beyond my thinking and having any thoughtsThe night falls concretelyAnd the shining of stars exists like it had we...”

“All beings exist and nothing elseAnd thats why theyre called beings”

“Theres enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.”

“And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.”