“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
“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.” LifeGodRealityPoetryUniverseNatureSpaceExistenceSeeingEternityClarityMaterialismFeelingInfinityPaganismIt Is What It IsPantheismNo Mind 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