“When I’m depressed, I read Caeiro — he’s my fresh air. I become very calm, content, faithful — yes, I find faith in God, and in the soul’s transcendent living smallness, after reading the poems by that ungodly anti-humanist who goes unsurpassed on earth.” LifeSoulGodPoetryUniverseReadingBeautyDepressionCalmMeaningContentmentFaithfulnessPaganismFresh AirPantheismSmallnessAlberto CaeiroUngodlyAnti HumanistEartTransendence Author:Álvaro de Campos
“The Amorous Shepherd is a fruitless interlude, but those few poems are among the world’s greatest love poems, because they’re love poems about love, not about being poems. The poet loves because he loves, not because love exists.” LoveLifeRealityTruthPoetryExistenceBeautySeeingClarityMeaningFeelingPaganismPantheismAlberto CaeiroThe Amorous Shepherd Author: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.” LifeGodTruthUniverseNatureExistenceBeautySeeingSimplicityClarityMeaningTranquilityPaganismMasterIt Is What It IsPantheismAt Peace Author:Álvaro de Campos
“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.” LifeGodRealityNatureChangeBeautyDestinyMeaningExceptionalPaganismPantheismCircumstanceTurn Of The Tide Author:Álvaro de Campos
“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.” LoveGodTruthUnderstandingNatureLossExistenceBeautyWineLandscapeMeaningMeaninglessNothingnessPaganismIt Is What It IsPantheismRicardo Reis Author:Álvaro de Campos