Fernando Pessoa Quote Generator

1.  "Like a kid before they teach him to be big, I'm true and loyal to what I see and hear." - Fernando Pessoa

2.  "There's enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything." - Fernando Pessoa

3.  "From the mountain comes a song Saying that however much The soul may come to have, It will always be unhappy. The world is not its home, And all that the world gives it Is given as if to someone Who'd rather not receive. Is that what it says? I don't know. There's music, no voice, at the window Where I ponder my self, alone, Like a shining star its glow." - Fernando Pessoa

4.  "All the opinions there are about nature Never made a weed grow or a flower bloom. All the wisdom regarding things Was never a thing I could hold like a thing; If science wants to be truthful, What science is more truthful than the science of things without science? I close my eyes and the hard earth where I'm lying Has a reality so real even my back feels it. I don't need reason - I have shoulder blades." - Fernando Pessoa

5.  "Only Nature is divine, and she's not divine... If I talk about her like she's a being It's because talking about her I need to use the language of men Which gives personality to things, And imposes a name on things. But things don't have name or personality: They exist, and the sky is big and the earth is wide, And our heart is the size of a clenched fist... Blessed be me for everything I know. I delight in all this like someone who knows there's the sun." - Fernando Pessoa

6.  "I accept life's difficulties because they're destined, Like I accept extreme cold in the depth of Winter - Calmly, without complaining, like someone simply accepting, And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting - In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural." - Fernando Pessoa

7.  "To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarates, the performing arts (such as acting and dance) entertain. Literature, however, retreats from life by turning in into slumber. The other arts make no such retreat- some because they use visible and hence vital formulas, others because they live from human life itself. This isn't the case with literature. Literature stimulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, a play is a novel without narration. A poem is the expression of ideas or feelings a language no one uses, because no one talks in verse." - Fernando Pessoa

8.  "Writing is like paying myself a formal visit..." - Fernando Pessoa

9.  "There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn't exist." - Fernando Pessoa

10.  "I feel love for all this, perhaps because I have nothing else to love ... even though nothing truly merits the love of any soul, if, out of sentiment, we must give it, I might as well lavish it on the smallness of an inkwell as on the grand indifference of the stars." - Fernando Pessoa