“It’s the poet we love in Caeiro, not the philosopher. What we really get from these poems is a childlike sense of life, with all the direct materiality of the child’s mind, and all the vital spirituality of hope and increase that exist in the body and soul of nescient childhood. Caeiro’s work is a dawn that wakes us up and quickens us; a more that material, more than anti-spiritual dawn. It’s an abstract effect, pure vacuum, nothingness.” SoulPhilosophyRealityPoetrySpiritualityHopeNatureExistenceChildhoodClarityPurityMaterialismNothingnessBeingPaganismIt Is What It IsPantheismVacuumDirectnessAlberto CaeiroElanVitalismAnti Spiritual Author: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.” LifeRealityUniverseExistenceSnowClarityMeaningFeelingNothingnessBeingMountainsPaganismPantheismSunligh Author:Álvaro de Campos
“the Great Vaccination — the vaccination against the stupidity of the intelligentsia.” RealityTruthExistenceStupidityClarityBeingPaganismIt Is What It IsPantheismVaccinationIntelligentsiaMenain Author: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.” LifeNatureExistenceSeeingMathematicsSensibilityBeingPaganismHuman BeingPantheismRicardo ReisThermometer Author:Álvaro de Campos