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

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

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.

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.

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.

Discouragement is the cancer of great things.

There are no military solutions - dialogue and diplomacy are the only guarantee of lasting peace.

Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.

Poetry is a necessity of life.

Learn to live with self and you will learn to live with others.

My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.

You lose a lot of time, hating people.

College was a blast. My three years of college were the best years of my life.

The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure.