Quotes by Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep

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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 — Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep
It’s stranger than every strangenessAnd the dreams of all the poetsAnd the thoughts of all the philosophers,That things — 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
I don’t always feel what I know I should feel.My thought crosses the river I swim very slowlyBecause the suit men made i — 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 — Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep
Also at times, on the surface of streams,Water?bubbles formAnd grow and burstAnd have no meaning at allExcept that they’ — 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, flow — Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep
I pass and I stay, like the Universe. — 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 — 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 th — 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 Uni — Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep
If I could take a bite of the whole worldAnd feel it on my palateI’d be more happy for a minute or so...But I don’t alwa — Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep
All beings exist and nothing elseAnd that’s why they’re called beings — Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep
There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything. — Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep
Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.Things are the only hidden meaning of things. — Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep
What does this think about that?Nothing thinks about anything.Does the earth have consciousness of its stones and plants — Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep
Praise be to God I’m not good,And have the natural egotism of flowersAnd rivers following their bedPreoccupied without k — Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep
Pensar incomoda como andar à chuvaQuando o vento cresce e parece que chove mais. — Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep
If I talk about her like she’s a beingIt’s because talking about her I need to use the language of menWhich gives person — Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep
The river of my village doesn’t make you think about anything.When you’re at its bank you’re only at its bank. — Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep