Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems Of Alberto Caeiro Quotes
It’s an already inside outside, The philosophers say it’s the soulBut it’s not the soul: it’s the animal or the man itselfIn its way of existing.
What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.
I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.
Accept the universeAs the gods gave it to you.If the gods wanted to give you something elseThey’d have done it.If there are other matters and other worldsThere are.
I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either.Nobody goes faster than the legs they have.If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant.(6/20/1919)
And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting —In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.
I’d 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.
I love flowers for being flowers, directly.And I love trees for being trees without my thought.
I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either.Nobody goes faster than the legs they have.If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant.
Other times when I hear the wind blowI feel that just hearing the wind blow makes it worth being born.