Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
"Water’s water and that’s why it’s beautiful."
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"Water’s water and that’s why it’s beautiful."
"الماء ماء، ولهذا يكمن جماله."
Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
"I’m in no hurry. What for?The sun and moon aren’t in a hurry: they’re right. Hurrying is believing people can get past their legs,Or that, jumping, they can land past their shadow. No; I don’t know how to hurry."
"لا أستعجل. ولماذا؟
الشمس والقمر لا يتعجلان: وهما على صواب.
الاستعجال هو أن يظن المرء أنه قادر على تجاوز ساقيه،
أو أنه بالقفز، يستطيع أن يهبط خلف ظله.
لا؛ لا أحسن الاستعجال."
Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
"Other times when I hear the wind blow I feel that just hearing the wind blow makes it worth being born."
"أحيانًا أخرى، حين أسمع الريح تهبّ، أشعر أن مجرد سماع هبوب الريح يجعل الحياة تستحق أن تُعاش."
Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
"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."
Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
"That thing over there was more there than it’s there!Yes, sometimes I cry about the perfect body that doesn’t exist. But the perfect body is the bodiest body there can be,And the rest are the dreams men have,The myopia of someone who doesn’t look very much,"
Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
"I love flowers for being flowers, directly. And I love trees for being trees without my thought."
Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
"Nothing at all reminds us of something else when we pay attention to it. Each thing only reminds us of what it is And it’s only what nothing else is. The fact that it’s it separates it from every other thing.(Everything’s nothing without another thing that’s not it)."
Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
"On a whitely cloudy day I get sad, almost afraid,And I begin to meditate about problems I make up."
Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
"I’d like to have enough time and quiet To think about absolutely nothing,To not ever feel myself living,To only know myself in others’ eyes, reflected."
Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
"Yes: I exist inside my body. I’m not carrying the sun and the moon in my pocket. I don’t want to conquer worlds because I slept badly,And I don’t want to eat the world for breakfast because I have a stomach. Indifferent?No: a son of the earth, who, if he jumps, it’s wrong,A moment in the air that’s not for us,And only happy when his feet hit the ground again,Pow! In reality where nothing’s missing!(6/20/1919)"
Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
"If I die very young, hear this:I was never anything but a kid playing. I was a heathen like the sun and the water,I had the universal religion only people don’t have. I was happy because I didn’t ask for anything at all,Or tried to find anything,And I didn’t find any more explanation Than the word explanation having no meaning at all."
Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
"And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting —In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural."
Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
"Night doesn’t fall for my eyes But my idea of the night is that it falls for my eyes. Beyond my thinking and having any thoughts The night falls concretely And the shining of stars exists like it had weight."
Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
"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, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
"Something changed in part of reality — my knees and my hands. What science has knowledge for this?The blind man goes on his way and I don’t make any more gestures. It’s already not the same time, or the same people, or anything the same. This is being real."
Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
"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, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
"If science wants to be truthful,What science is more truthful than the science of things without science?I close my eyes and the hard earth where I’m lying Has a reality so real even my back feels it. I don’t need reason — I have shoulderblades."
Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
"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)"
Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
"There are no roses in my yard: what wind brought you?But I suddenly come from far away. I was sick for a moment. No wind whatsoever brought you now. Now you’re here. What you were isn’t you, or else the whole rose would be here."
Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
"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, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
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