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.

Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poets say what they think they should feel.

It’s stupid, but it’s human, and that’s how it is.

the Great Vaccination — the vaccination against the stupidity of the intelligentsia.

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.

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.

An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.

I'm a poet and It's my choiceless choice.

We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.

You must try to forget all you have learned, ' said the old man. 'You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices.

Books had been her means of escape

It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.

Children can only take so much, and they deal with it however they can.

Such crimes has superstition caused.

I think seeing Pryor's first movie, Live In Concert, when I was in high school changed my life. Pryor really put the heart in darkness for me.

An honest book is almost as good as a friend.