Top 55 Caeiro Quotes

#1. And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting -
In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #772
#2. Lightly, lightly, very lightly,
A wind passes very lightly
And goes away, always very lightly.
And I don't know what I think
And I don't want to know.

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #109840
#3. I don't regret anything I was before because I still am.
I only regret not having loved you.
Put your hands in mine
And let's be quiet, surrounded by life.

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #111326
#4. I'm one of my sensations.

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #277048
#5. That thing over there was more there than it's there!
Yes, sometimes I cry about the perfect body that doesn't exist.
But the perfect body is the bodiest body there can be,
And the rest are the dreams men have,
The myopia of someone who doesn't look very much,

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #278120
#6. Things don't have significance: they only have existence.
Things are the only hidden meaning of things.

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #285286
#7. Let's only care about the place where we are.
There's beauty enough in being here and not anywhere else.
If there's someone beyond the curve in the road,
Let them worry about what's past the curve in the road,
That's what the road is to them.

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #325384
#8. But if God is the flowers and the trees
And 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 communion with my eyes and through my ears.

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #331671
#9. 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 you're here.
What you were isn't you, or else the whole rose would be here.

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #340337
#10. Let's be simple and calm,
Like brooks and trees,
And God will love us by making
Beautiful 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 end...

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #387138
#11. If they want me to have mysticism, okay, I've got it.
I'm a mystic, but only in my body,
My soul is simple and doesn't think.

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #421416
#12. His conception of the universe is, however, instinctive, not intellectual; it can't be criticized as a concept, because there's none there, and it can't be criticized as temperament, because temperament can't be criticized.

Alvaro De Campos

Caeiro Quotes #476920
#13. And he feels hurt when he hears about wars,
And commerce, and the ships leaving
Their smoke on the high seas.
Because he knows all of this lacks the truth
A flower has in its blooming
And which moves with the sunlight
Changing the hills and valleys

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #503824
#14. 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 unhappy.

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #513371
#15. On a whitely cloudy day I get sad, almost afraid,
And I begin to meditate about problems I make up.

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #523080
#16. Night doesn't fall for my eyes
But my idea of the night is that it falls for my eyes.
Beyond my thinking and having any thoughts
The night falls concretely
And the shining of stars exists like it had weight.

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #523417
#17. What does a river know about this and what does a tree know?
And I, who am no more than those, what do I know?
Every time I look at things and think about what men think about them,
I laugh like how a brook sounds cool on a stone.

Fernando Pessoa

Caeiro Quotes #603720
#18. I was never a keeper of sheep

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #610992
#19. The river of my village doesn't make you think about anything.
When you're at its bank you're only at its bank.

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #691473
#20. Water's water and that's why it's beautiful.

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #734996
#21. At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void.

Fernando Pessoa

Caeiro Quotes #745768
#22. What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #869071
#23. 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 defect of demanding of the World
That it be anything that's not the World.

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #880128
#24. 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 I'm lying
Has a reality so real even my back feels it.
I don't need reason - I have shoulderblades.

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #965619
#25. From my village I see as much in the Universe as you can see from earth.
So my village is as big as any other land
Because I'm the size of what I see,
Not the size of my height.

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #1027068
#26. It's an already inside outside,
The philosophers say it's the soul
But it's not the soul: it's the animal or the man itself
In its way of existing.

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #1037490
#27. The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset.
But what does someone who hates and loves want with a sunset?

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #1085472
#28. the world wasn't made for us to think about it
(to think is to have eyes that aren't well)
but to look at it and be in agreement.

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #1086744
#29. I don't know what understanding myself is. I don't look inside.
I don't believe I exist behind myself.

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #1124364
#30. If I talk about her like she's a being
It's because talking about her I need to use the language of men
Which gives personality to things,
And imposes a name on things.

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #1139812
#31. I'm glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I've read.

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #1147859
#32. 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 Universe
Because I bring the Universe to itself.

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #1261371
#33. She's a manner of speaking.
Even the flowers don't come back, or the green leaves.
There are new flowers, new green leaves.
There are other beautiful days.
Nothing comes back, nothing repeats itself, because everything is real.

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #1312733
#34. All beings exist and nothing else
And that's why they're called beings

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #1316918
#35. Also at times, on the surface of streams,
Water?bubbles form
And grow and burst
And have no meaning at all
Except that they're water?bubbles
Growing and bursting.

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #1358297
#36. I suddenly asked my master Caeiro, "Are you at peace with yourself?" and he answered, "No, I'm at peace." It was like the voice of the earth, which is everything and no one.

Alvaro De Campos

Caeiro Quotes #1364902
#37. I don't always feel what I know I should feel.
My thought crosses the river I swim very slowly
Because the suit men made it wear weighs it down.

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #1400033
#38. Nature never remembers, that's why she's beautiful.

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #1447397
#39. A row of trees far away, there on the hillside.
But what is it, a row of trees? It's just trees.
Row and the plural trees aren't things, they're names.

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #1450805
#40. I'm in no hurry. What for?
The sun and moon aren't in a hurry: they're right.
Hurrying is believing people can get past their legs,
Or that, jumping, they can land past their shadow.
No; I don't know how to hurry.

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #1451854
#41. 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 wouldn't be a dream - but less real than a thing. That's what being real is like.

Alvaro De Campos

Caeiro Quotes #1547868
#42. The main thing is knowing how to see,
To know how to see without thinking,
To know how to see when you see,
And not think when you see
Or see when you think.

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #1550331
#43. They spoke to me of people, and of humanity.
But I've never seen people, or humanity.
I've seen various people, astonishingly dissimilar,
Each separated from the next by an unpeopled space.

Fernando Pessoa

Caeiro Quotes #1573014
#44. Everything's different from us. That's why everything exists.

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #1581194
#45. From my village I see as much of the universe as you can see from earth, So my village is as big as any other land For I am the size of what I see, Not the size of my height. - Fernando Pessoa as Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep

Rabih Alameddine

Caeiro Quotes #1596946
#46. I love flowers for being flowers, directly.
And I love trees for being trees without my thought.

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #1645418
#47. I pass and I stay, like the Universe.

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #1651266
#48. It's stranger than every strangeness
And the dreams of all the poets
And the thoughts of all the philosophers,
That things are really what they seem to be
And there's nothing to understand.

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #1666080
#49. Accept the universe
As the gods gave it to you.
If the gods wanted to give you something else
They'd have done it.

If there are other matters and other worlds
There are.

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #1690050
#50. That lady has a piano.
It's nice, but it's not the running of rivers
Or the murmuring trees make ..

Who needs a piano?
It's better to have ears
And love Nature.

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #1796845
#51. Now I sense the perfume of flowers like seeing a new thing.
I know they smell just as well as I know I existed.
They're things known from the outside.
But now I know with my breathing from the back of my head.

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #1805711
#52. The Amorous Shepherd is a fruitless interlude, but those few poems are among the world's greatest love poems, because they're love poems about love, not about being poems. The poet loves because he loves, not because love exists.

Alvaro De Campos

Caeiro Quotes #1822038
#53. Nothing at all reminds us of something else when we pay attention to it.
Each thing only reminds us of what it is
And it's only what nothing else is.
The fact that it's it separates it from every other thing.
(Everything's nothing without another thing that's not it).

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #1829802
#54. 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 don't make any more gestures.
It's already not the same time, or the same people, or anything the same.
This is being real.

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #1864511
#55. He's taught me everything.
He taught me how to look at things.
He shows me everything there is in flowers.
He shows me how stones are pleasing
When you hold them in your hand
And look at them for a while.

Alberto Caeiro

Caeiro Quotes #1876726

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