Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep
"If I could take a bite of the whole world And feel it on my palate I’d be more happy for a minute or so... But I don’t always want to be happy. Sometimes you have to be Unhappy to be natural... Not every day is sunny. When there’s been no rain for a while, you pray for it to come. So I take unhappiness with happiness Naturally, like someone who doesn’t find it strange That there are mountains and plains And that there are cliffs and grass... What you need is to be natural and calm In happiness and in unhappiness,To feel like someone seeing,To think like someone walking,And when it’s time to die, remember the day dies,And the sunset is beautiful, and the endless night is beautiful... That’s how it is and that’s how it should be..."
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"If I could take a bite of the whole world And feel it on my palate I’d be more happy for a minute or so... But I don’t always want to be happy. Sometimes you have to be Unhappy to be natural... Not every day is sunny. When there’s been no rain for a while, you pray for it to come. So I take unhappiness with happiness Naturally, like someone who doesn’t find it strange That there are mountains and plains And that there are cliffs and grass... What you need is to be natural and calm In happiness and in unhappiness,To feel like someone seeing,To think like someone walking,And when it’s time to die, remember the day dies,And the sunset is beautiful, and the endless night is beautiful... That’s how it is and that’s how it should be..."
Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep
"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, The Keeper of Sheep
"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, The Keeper of Sheep
"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, The Keeper of Sheep
"I pass and I stay, like the Universe."
Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep
"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, The Keeper of Sheep
"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, The Keeper of Sheep
"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, The Keeper of Sheep
"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, The Keeper of Sheep
"The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset. But what does someone who hates and loves want with a sunset?"
Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep
"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, The Keeper of Sheep
"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, The Keeper of Sheep
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