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Category: Alberto Caeiro

Lightly, lightly, very lightly,A wind passes very lightlyAnd goes away, always very lightly.And I don’t know what I thinkAnd I don’t want to know.

beauty, being, life, meaning-of-life, nature, paganism, pantheism, thinking, tranquility

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.

beauty, existence, it-is-what-it-is, knowing, love, meaning, meaning-of-life, meanings, nature, paganism, pantheism, sense, things, tranquility, truth

Sometimes in the evening on Summer days,Even when there’s not a breeze at all, it seemsLike there’s a light breeze blowing for a minuteBut the trees are unmovingIn every leaf of their leavesAnd our feelings have had an illusion,An illusion of what would please them…

breeze, god, meaning, movement, nature, paganism, pantheism, simplicity, summernights, tranquility, trees

If they want me to have mysticism, okay, I’ve got it.I’m a mystic, but only in my body,My soul is simple and doesn’t think.

beauty, god, menaing-of-life, mysticism, nature, paganism, pantheism, self, simplicity, soul, tranquility

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.

being, clarity, escape, existence, hurry, life, meaning, moon, paganism, pantheism, rush, slow, speed, sun, time, travel, truth

I don’t know how to talk because I’m feeling.I’m listening to my voice as if it were someone else’s,And my voice is speaking about her as if she were speaking.She has hair as blond as yellow wheat in the sun,And when she speaks her mouth says things that aren’t words.She laughs, and her teeth are as clean as stones in a river.

beloved, fallen-in-love, feeling, love, lover, paganism, pantheism, speaking

Water’s water and that’s why it’s beautiful.

beauty, clarity, it-is-what-it-is, life, paganism, pantheism, seeing, simplicity, tranquility, truth, water

I don’t bother with rhyme. RarelyAre two trees the same, one beside the other.I think and write like flowers have colorBut with less perfection in my way of expressing myselfBecause I lack the divine simplicityOf wholly being only my exterior.I see and I’m moved,Moved the way water runs when the ground is slopingAnd what I write is as natural as the rising wind…

god, life, meaning-of-life, paganism, pantheism, philosophy, poetry, simplicity

That lady has a piano.It’s nice, but it’s not the running of riversOr the murmuring trees make ..Who needs a piano?It’s better to have earsAnd love Nature.

god, love, meaning-of-life, music, nature, paganism, pantheism, peace, tranquility

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 headAnd 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.

feeling, forgetting, longing, love, out-of-love, paganism, pantheism, seeing, truth, wonder

Nature never remembers, that’s why she’s beautiful.

beauty, being, clarity, divinity-of-nature, existence, god, life, meaning, memory, nature, paganism, pantheism, remembrance, seeing

One day when God fell asleepAnd the Holy Ghost went off flying,He got into a box of miracles and stole three.With the first he made it so that no one would know he had run away.With the second he made himself a human boy forever.With the third he created a Christ eternally crucifiedAnd left him nailed to the cross that there is in HeavenWhere he’s used as a model for other crosses.Then he ran away to the sunAnd came down on the first ray he caught.

god, life, life-philosophy, nature, paganism, pantheism, peace