"If I could take a bite of the whole earth"

If I could take a bite of the whole earth
And get a taste of it,
I'd be happier for a moment...
But I don't always want to be happy.
One must be unhappy now and then
Just to be able to be natural...

Not every day is fair,
And when there's a drought, you look for rain.
That's why I take the happy with the sad
Naturally, like someone not surprised
There are mountains and plains,
Rocks and grass...

One must be natural and easy,
Take the happy with the sad,
Feel as one who looks,
Think as one who walks,
And, when it's time to die, remember the day dies too,
    enduring night...
That's how it is, and so be it...

«English Poems by Fernando Pessoa» Alberto Caeiro Poetry
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"Only Nature is divine, and she's not divine..."

if I speak of her as a being
it's because to speak of her I must use the language
     of men
Which endows things with personality,
And forces names upon things.
But things have neither name nor personality -
They exist, and the sky is vast and the earth wide,
And our hearts the size of a clenched fist...

Bless me for all I do not know.
I enjoy it all as one who knows there's always sun.


from «The keeper of sheep» , by Alberto Caeiro (from "Poems of fernando Pessoa")
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