Poetry Quote by Fernando Pessoa — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“A tree's shade is worth more than the knowledge of truth, my sons, for a tree's shade is true while it lasts, and the knowledge of truth is false in its very truth. The leaves' greenness is worth more, for a right understanding, than a great thought, for the leaves, greenness is something you can show others, but you can never show them a great thought. We are born without knowing how to talk and we die without having known how to express ourselves. Our life runs its course between the silence of one who cannot speak and the silence of one who wasn't understood, and around it hovers — like a bee where there are no flowers — a useless, inscrutable destiny.”

“المرآة تعكس بدقة متناهية دون أن تخطئ ابداَ . لأنها وبكل بساطة لا تفكر”

“Again I see you, But me I don't see!, The magical mirror in which I saw myself has been broken, And only a piece of me I see in each fatal fragment - Only a piece of you and me!...”

“Ah, the freshness in the face of leaving a task undone!”

“Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice”

“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;”

“She wore the moonlight like lingerie.”

“Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.”

“One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.”

“My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me.”

“Sometimes with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturn'd love;”