Quotes by : Álvaro de Campos

His conception of the universe is, however, instinctive, not intellectual; it can't be criticized as....

Do I believe a thing has limits!? Of course! Nothing exists that doesn’t have limits. Existence means....

in exceptional circumstances — exceptional in that all circumstances in life are exceptional, especially....

But what you’re calling poetry is what everything is. It’s not even poetry — it’s seeing. These....

The Amorous Shepherd is a fruitless interlude, but those few poems are among the world’s greatest love....

and the idea of nothingness — the most terrifying of all ideas, when thought of with feeling — has,....

Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poets....

the Great Vaccination — the vaccination against the stupidity of the intelligentsia.

He possesses the minimum sensibility necessary for his intelligence not to be merely mathematical, the....

Nothing: a landscape, a glass of wine, a little loveless love, and the vague sadness caused by our understanding....