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

“To be great, be whole;”

“Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!”

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

“I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to me to be full of poetry. The only thing I ever loved was pure nothingness.”

“The poet is a faker / Who's so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact.”

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

“Ah, when to the heart of man”

“The poet must be more useful than any other member if his tribe.”

“We’re only instruments of love, flowing through heaps of pain hoping one day we’d hatch a passion of our own.”

“Silly girl, your different was your beautiful all along.”

“Tonight I saw myself in the dark window as”

“I drink from a small spring,”