Quotes by : Fernando Pessoa

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.

Again I see you, But me I don't see!, The magical mirror in which I saw myself has been broken, And only....

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura....

Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without....

...And suddenly, from behind me, I hear the metaphysically abrupt arrival of the office boy. I feel like....

My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever....

I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I’ve....

I’m curious about everyone, hungry for everything, greedy for all ideas. My awareness that not everything....

By day I am nothing, by night I am I.

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