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Alberto Caeiro Quotes | Quotes said by Alberto Caeiro

  • Alberto Caeiro Quote #1

    A kid thinking about fairy tales and believing in fairy tales
    Acts like a sick god, but like a god.
    Because even though he affirms that what doesn’t exist exists,
    He knows things exist, that he exists,
    He knows existing exists and doesn’t explain itself,
    And he knows there’s no reason at all for anything to exist.
    He knows being is the point.
    All he doesn’t know is that thought isn’t the point.

    (10/1/1917)


  • Alberto Caeiro Quote #2

    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 Quote #3

    A stagecoach passed by on the road and went on;
    And the road didn’t become more beautiful or even more ugly.
    That’s human action on the outside world.
    We take nothing away and we put nothing back, we pass by and we forget;
    And the sun is always punctual every day.

    (5/7/14)

  • Alberto Caeiro Quote #4

    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 Quote #5

    All beings exist and nothing else
    And that’s why they’re called beings

  • Alberto Caeiro Quote #6

    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 Quote #7

    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 Quote #8

    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 Quote #9

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

  • Alberto Caeiro Quote #10

    And since today’s all there is for now, that’s everything.
    Who knows if I’ll be dead the day after tomorrow?
    If I’m dead the day after tomorrow, the thunderstorm day after tomorrow
    Will be another thunderstorm than if I hadn’t died.
    Of course I know thunderstorms don’t fall because I see them,
    But if I weren’t in the world,
    The world would be different —
    There would be me the less —
    And the thunderstorm would fall on a different world and would be another thunderstorm.
    No matter what happens, what’s falling is what’ll be falling when it falls.

    (7/10/1930)

  • Alberto Caeiro Quote #11

    And sometimes if I want
    To imagine I’m a lamb
    (Or a whole flock
    Spreading out all over the hillside
    So I can be a lot of happy things at the same time),
    It’s only because I feel what I write at sunset,
    Or when a cloud passes its hand over the light
    And silence runs over the grass outside.
    When I sit and write poems
    Or, walking along the roads or pathways,
    I write poems on the paper in my thoughts,
    I feel a staff in my hand
    And see my silhouette
    On top of a knoll,
    Looking after my flock and seeing my ideas,
    Or looking after my ideas and seeing my flock,
    With a silly smile like someone who doesn’t understand what somebody’s saying
    But tries to pretend they do.

  • Alberto Caeiro Quote #12

    Between what i see in a field and what I see in another field
    There passes for a moment the figure of a man.
    His steps go with “him” in the same reality,
    But I look at him and them, and they’re two things:
    The “man” goes walking with his ideas, false and foreign,
    And his steps go with the ancient system that makes legs walk.
    I see him from a distance without any opinion at all.
    How perfect that he is in him what he is — his body,
    His true reality which doesn’t have desires or hopes,
    But muscles and the sure and impersonal way of using them.

  • Alberto Caeiro Quote #13

    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 Quote #14

    But if God is the trees and the flowers
    And the hills and the moonlight and the sun,
    Why should I call him God?
    I call him flowers and trees and hills and sun and moonlight;
    Because if he made himself for me to see
    As the sun and moonlight and flowers and trees and hills,
    If he appears to me as trees and hills
    And moonlight and sun and flowers,
    It’s because he wants me to know him
    As trees and hills and flowers and moonlight and sun.

    And that’s why I obey him,
    (What more do I know about God than God knows about himself?),
    I obey him by living, spontaneously,
    Like someone opening his eyes and seeing,
    And I call him moonlight and sun and flowers and trees and hills,
    And I love him without thinking about him,
    And I think him by seeing and hearing,
    And I walk with him all the time.

  • Alberto Caeiro Quote #15

    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 Quote #16

    Everything’s different from us. That’s why everything exists.

  • Alberto Caeiro Quote #17

    He should be happy because he can think about the unhappiness of others!
    He’s stupid if he doesn’t know other people’s unhappiness is theirs,
    And isn’t cured from the outside,
    Because suffering isn’t like running out of ink,
    Or a trunk not having iron bands!

    There being injustice is like there being death.

  • Alberto Caeiro Quote #18

    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 Quote #19

    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 Quote #20

    I don’t bother with rhyme. Rarely
    Are two trees the same, one beside the other.
    I think and write like flowers have color
    But with less perfection in my way of expressing myself
    Because I lack the divine simplicity
    Of wholly being only my exterior.

    I see and I’m moved,
    Moved the way water runs when the ground is sloping
    And what I write is as natural as the rising wind...

  • Alberto Caeiro Quote #21

    I don’t have a philosophy: I have senses...
    If I talk about Nature, it’s not because I know what it is,
    But because I love it, and that’s why I love it,
    Because when you love you never know what you love,
    Or why you love, or what love is.

    Loving is eternal innocence,
    And the only innocence is not thinking.

  • Alberto Caeiro Quote #22

    I don’t know how to talk because I’m feeling.
    I’m listening to my voice as if it were someone else’s,
    And my voice is speaking about her as if she were speaking.
    She has hair as blond as yellow wheat in the sun,
    And when she speaks her mouth says things that aren’t words.
    She laughs, and her teeth are as clean as stones in a river.

  • Alberto Caeiro Quote #23

    I don’t know what understanding myself is. I don’t look inside.
    I don’t believe I exist behind myself.

  • Alberto Caeiro Quote #24

    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 Quote #25

    I love flowers for being flowers, directly.
    And I love trees for being trees without my thought.

  • Alberto Caeiro Quote #26

    I pass and I stay, like the Universe.

  • Alberto Caeiro Quote #27

    I saw that there is no Nature,
    That Nature doesn’t exist,
    That there are hills, valleys, plains,
    That there are trees, flowers, weeds,
    That there are rivers and stones,
    But there is not a whole these belong to,
    That a real and true wholeness
    Is a sickness of our ideas.

  • Alberto Caeiro Quote #28

    I think about this, not like someone thinking, but like someone breathing,
    And I look at flowers and I smile...
    I don’t know if they understand me
    Or if I understand them,
    But I know the truth is in them and in me
    And in our common divinity
    Of letting ourselves go and live on the Earth
    And carrying us in our arms through the contented Seasons
    And letting the wind sing us to sleep
    And not have dreams in our sleep.

  • Alberto Caeiro Quote #29

    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 Quote #30

    I'm one of my sensations.

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