Quotes by Alberto Caeiro

“Things dont have significance: they only have existence.Things are the only hidden meaning of things.”

“A kid thinking about fairy tales and believing in fairy talesActs like a sick god, but like a god.Because even though he affirms that what doesnt exist exists,He knows things exist, that he exists,...”

“If I die very young, hear this:I was never anything but a kid playing.I was a heathen like the sun and the water,I had the universal religion only people dont have.I was happy because I didnt ask f...”

“What does this think about that?Nothing thinks about anything.Does the earth have consciousness of its stones and plants?If it did, it would be people. . .Why am I worrying about this?If I think ab...”

“Praise be to God Im not good,And have the natural egotism of flowersAnd rivers following their bedPreoccupied without knowing itOnly with blooming and flowing.This is the only mission in the World,...”

“Pensar incomoda como andar chuvaQuando o vento cresce e parece que chove mais.”

“Lets only care about the place where we are.Theres beauty enough in being here and not anywhere else.If theres someone beyond the curve in the road,Let them worry about whats past the curve in the ...”

“If I talk about her like shes a beingIts because talking about her I need to use the language of menWhich gives personality to things,And imposes a name on things.”

“Id like to have enough time and quietTo think about absolutely nothing,To not ever feel myself living,To only know myself in others eyes, reflected.”

“On a whitely cloudy day I get sad, almost afraid,And I begin to meditate about problems I make up.”

“Nothing at all reminds us of something else when we pay attention to it.Each thing only reminds us of what it isAnd its only what nothing else is.The fact that its it separates it from every other ...”

“I love flowers for being flowers, directly.And I love trees for being trees without my thought.”

“That thing over there was more there than its there!Yes, sometimes I cry about the perfect body that doesnt exist.But the perfect body is the bodiest body there can be,And the rest are the dreams m...”

“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...”

“Nature never remembers, thats why shes beautiful.”

“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 ...”

“Im in no hurry: the sun and the moon arent, either.Nobody goes faster than the legs they have.If where I want to go is far away, Im not there in an instant.”

“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...”