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“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

“Other times when I hear the wind blow
I feel that just hearing the wind blow makes it worth being born.”
― Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro

“Nature never remembers, that’s why she’s beautiful.”
― Alberto Caeiro

“It’s stupid, but it’s human, and that’s how it is.”
― Álvaro de Campos

“The cloudless day is richer at its close;
A golden glory settles on the lea;
Soft, stealing shadows hint of cool repose
To mellowing landscape, and to calming sea.

And in that nobler, gentler, lovelier light,
The soul to sweeter, loftier bliss inclines;
Freed form the noonday glare, the favour’d sight
Increasing grace in earth and sky divines.

But ere the purest radiance crowns the green,
Or fairest lustre fills th�� expectant grove,
The twilight thickens, and the fleeting scene
Leaves but a hallow’d memory of love!”
― H. P. Lovecraft

“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

“I feel the need to fall in love with the world, to forge that relationship ever more strongly. But maybe I don’t have to work so hard. I have thought nature indifferent to humans, to one more human, but maybe the reverse is true. Maybe the world is already in love, giving us these gifts all the time—the glimpse of a fox, tracks in the sand, a breeze, a flower--calling out all the time: take this. And this. And this. Don’t turn away.”
― Sharman Apt Russell, Diary of a Citizen Scientist: Chasing Tiger Beetles and Other New Ways of Engaging the World

“Water’s water and that’s why it’s beautiful.”
― Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro

“Man is not to direct or to be directed anymore than a tree or a cloud or a stone

Man is not to rule or be ruled anymore than a faith or a truth or a love

Man is not to doubt or to be doubted anymore than a wave or a seed or a fire

There is no problem in living which life hasn't answered to its own need

And we cannot direct, rule, or doubt what is beyond our highest ability to understand we can only be humble before it we can only worship ourselves because we are a part of it

The eye in the leaf is watching out of our fingers
The ear in the stone is listening through our voices
The thought of the wave is thinking in our dreams
The faith of the seed is building with our deaths”
― Kenneth Patchen, Collected Poems

“Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poets say what they think they should feel.”
― Álvaro de Campos

“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.”
― Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro

“She goes on with her beautiful hair and mouth like before,
I go on like before, alone in the field.
It’s like my head had been lowered,
And if I think this, and raise my head
And the golden sun dries the need to cry I can’t stop having.
How vast the field and interior love... !
I look, and I forget, like dryness where there was water and trees losing their leaves.”
― Alberto Caeiro, O Pastor Amoroso

“Let’s only care about the place where we are.
There’s beauty enough in being here and not anywhere else.
If there’s someone beyond the curve in the road,
Let them worry about what’s past the curve in the road,
That’s what the road is to them.”
― Alberto Caeiro, Selected Poems (By Fernando Pessoa)

“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.”
― Álvaro de Campos

“Sometimes in the evening on Summer days,
Even when there’s not a breeze at all, it seems
Like there’s a light breeze blowing for a minute
But the trees are unmoving
In every leaf of their leaves
And our feelings have had an illusion,
An illusion of what would please them...”
― Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep

“Se nu er jeg borte fra byens larm og
trængsel og aviser og mennesker, jeg er
flygtet fra det altsammen fordi det igjen
kaldte på mig fra landet og ensomheten
hvor jeg er fra. Du skal se det kommer
til å gå godt! Tænker jeg og har atter det
bedste håp. Ak jeg har gjort en slik flugt
før og er atter vendt tilbake til byen. Og
atter flyktet.”
― Knut Hamsun

“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

“But what you’re calling poetry is what everything is. It’s not even poetry �� it’s seeing. These materialists are blind. You told me they say space is infinite. Where do they see that in space?��

And I, disconcerted: “But don’t you think of space as infinite? Can’t you conceive of space as infinite?��

“I don’t conceive of anything as being infinite. How could I conceive of anything as being infinite?��

“But, man,�� I said, “Imagine space. Beyond that space is more space, and beyond that more, and then more, and more... It never ends...��

“Why?�� asked my master Caeiro.”
― Álvaro de Campos

“Do I believe a thing has limits!? Of course! Nothing exists that doesn’t have limits. Existence means there’s always something else, and so everything has limits. Why is it so hard to conceive that a thing is a thing, and that it isn’t always being some other thing that’s beyond it?��

At that moment I felt in my bones not that I was talking to a man, but to another universe. I tried one last time, from another angle, which I felt compelled to consider legitimate.

“Look, Caeiro... think about numbers... Where do they end? Take any number �� say 34. Past it we have 35, 36, 37, 38 �� there can be no end to it. There is no number so big that there is no number larger...��

“But that’s just numbers,�� protested my master Caeiro.

And then, looking at me out of his formidable, childlike eyes:

“What is 34 in Reality, anyway?”
― Álvaro de Campos

“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.”
― Álvaro de Campos

“The hope is indeed that some will experience and believe: The purpose of a number of spiritual gurus is to demonstrate to God-fearing men faux spirituality.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Yes, this is what my senses alone have learned:��
Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.
Things are the only hidden meaning of things.”
― Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep

“the Great Vaccination �� the vaccination against the stupidity of the intelligentsia.”
― Álvaro de Campos

“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.”
― Álvaro de Campos

“Science is knowledge meeting humility meeting curiosity: ever-evolving, always learning. Atheism is often but knowledge meeting arrogance: a masquerade under the wing of the beauty of science. Religion is infamously a weight under the one wing; then under the other is atheism, the championed masquerade.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“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.”
― Álvaro de Campos

“and the idea of nothingness �� the most terrifying of all ideas, when thought of with feeling �� has, in my dear master’s work and in my memories of him, something as high and luminous as sunlight upon snowy, unscalable peaks.”
― Álvaro de Campos

“This one god could be of the deistic or pantheistic sort. Deism might be superior in explaining why God has seemingly left us to our own devices and pantheism could be the more logical option as it fits well with the ontological argument's 'maximally-great entity' and doesn't rely on unproven concepts about 'nothing' (as in 'creation out of nothing'). A mixture of the two, pandeism, could be the most likely God-concept of all.”
― Raphael Lataster, There Was No Jesus, There Is No God

“Pandeism: This is the belief that God created the universe, is now one with it, and so, is no longer a separate conscious entity. This is a combination of pantheism (God is identical to the universe) and deism (God created the universe and then withdrew Himself).”
― Alan Dawe

“For, I think, when I woke up today, with a dream of yesterday still in my eyes,I felt tired in life. And thinking of the little blond girl of Mays & Junes long gone by,I felt strange looking on a field of wheat, and I thought, in a moment I was God and so was she, and this field was us too. So long gone, she goes. But I am still her, whether she comes and goes like all of life, or she stays awhile.
Once, a man of physics told me, matter cannot be created or destroyed. And on
another occasion he said everything came from one point, in the beginning.
So we are all flowers and rivers and trees. That was all of us together. Every one of the past, present, and future.”
― Derek Keck, The Kitchen Sinks of Yesterday Morning: The Urinal Cakes of Tomorrow