Deito-me ao comprido na erva.
E esqueço do quanto me ensinaram.
O que me ensinaram nunca me deu mais calor nem mais frio,
O que me disseram que havia nunca me alterou a forma de uma
coisa.
O que me aprenderam a ver nunca tocou nos meus olhos.
O que me apontaram nunca estava ali: estava ali só o que ali
estava.
Alberto Caeiro, in "Fragmentos"
I lie down
in the long grass.
And forget
how much taught me.
What I was
taught never gave me more heat or more cold
What I said
had never changed the form of a thing.
What I
learned to do never touched my eyes.
What I
pointed out was never there, there was only what was there.
Alberto Caeiro, in 'Fragments'
