38 quotes found
“Its stupid, but its human, and thats how it is.”
“It’s stupid, but it’s human, and that’s how it is.”
“Everythings different from us. Thats why everything exists.”
“Everything’s different from us. That’s why everything exists.”
“the Great Vaccination the vaccination against the stupidity of the intelligentsia.”
“the Great Vaccination — the vaccination against the stupidity of the intelligentsia.”
“I dont know what understanding myself is. I dont look inside.I dont believe I exist behind myself.”
“I consider a dream like I consider a shadow, answered Caeiro, with his usual divine, unexpected promptitude. A shadow is real, but its less real than a rock. A dream is real if it werent, it would...”
“His conception of the universe is, however, instinctive, not intellectual; it can't be criticized as a concept, because theres none there, and it can't be criticized as temperament, because tempera...”
“Its the poet we love in Caeiro, not the philosopher. What we really get from these poems is a childlike sense of life, with all the direct materiality of the childs mind, and all the vital spiritua...”
“The Amorous Shepherd is a fruitless interlude, but those few poems are among the worlds greatest love poems, because theyre love poems about love, not about being poems. The poet loves because he l...”
“he woman Caeiro fell in love with. I have no idea who she was, and I intend to never find out, not even out of curiosity. There are things of which the soul refuses to lose its ignorance.Im perfect...”
“When Im depressed, I read Caeiro hes my fresh air. I become very calm, content, faithful yes, I find faith in God, and in the souls transcendent living smallness, after reading the poems by that ...”
“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 ...”
“Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poets say what they think they should feel.”
“Do I believe a thing has limits!? Of course! Nothing exists that doesnt have limits. Existence means theres always something else, and so everything has limits. Why is it so hard to conceive that a...”
“But what youre calling poetry is what everything is. Its not even poetry its seeing. These materialists are blind. You told me they say space is infinite. Where do they see that in space?And I, di...”
“and the idea of nothingness the most terrifying of all ideas, when thought of with feeling has, in my dear masters work and in my memories of him, something as high and luminous as sunlight upon ...”
“in exceptional circumstances exceptional in that all circumstances in life are exceptional, especially those which are nothing in themselves and come to be everything in their results.”
“Nothing: a landscape, a glass of wine, a little loveless love, and the vague sadness caused by our understanding nothing and having lost the little we're given.”
“I suddenly asked my master Caeiro, Are you at peace with yourself? and he answered, No, Im at peace. It was like the voice of the earth, which is everything and no one.”
“He possesses the minimum sensibility necessary for his intelligence not to be merely mathematical, the minimum a human being needs so that it can be proven with a thermometer that he's not dead.”
“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 real than a rock. A dream is real — if it weren’t, it ...”
