Quotes by : José Luís Peixoto

na hora de pôr a mesa, éramos cinco:o meu pai, a minha mãe, as minhas irmãse eu. depois, a minha....

I think: perhaps the sky is a huge sea of fresh water and we, instead of walking under it, walk on top....

Beyond the clouds, above people, beneath the skin, inside people, we’re waiting for you. We see you....

Memory is like a curse. We fall into eternity, and memory is a weight that keeps pulling us to where....

one day, when tenderness has become the single rule of the morning,/ I will wake in your arms. perhaps....

Suffering is tossed by handfuls over the multitudes, with most of it falling on some people and little....

the poem doesn’t have stanzas, it has a body, the poem doesn’t have lines,/ it has blood, the poem....

I think: perhaps the sky is a huge sea of fresh water and we, instead of walking under it, walk on top....