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Alberto Caeiro

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Poetry

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A heteronym of Fernando Pessoa.

Alberto Caeiro was born in Lisbon, in 1889 and died in 1915, but lived most of his life in the country with an old great aunt because he was orphaned from a young age. He had blonde hair and blue eyes. He finished his primary school education and had no profession.
How did this heteronym come about? Fernando Pessoa tells us "one day he decided to play a trick on Sá-Carneiro — so he drew up a bucolic poet, of the complicated kind and had them meet, I can’t remember how, in some sort of real context. I spent some days trying to formulate the poet but achieved nothing. One day, on the verge of giving up – March 8th 1914 – I approached a high chest of drawers and, began to write something down on a piece of paper,...more

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Books by Alberto Caeiro

Average rating: 4.37 · 364 ratings · 8 reviews · 10 distinct works

	O Guardador de Rebanhos 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1914	My rating:
	Poemas 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1997	My rating:
	The Keeper of Sheep by Fernando Pessoa, Alberto Caeiro 4.45 avg rating — 132 ratings — published 1925 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Wenn Das Herz Denken Könnte.. by Fernando Pessoa, Alberto Caeiro 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Mein Lissabon. Ein Lese Und Bilderbuch by Fernando Pessoa, Alberto Caeiro 3.55 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1992 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro by Fernando Pessoa, Alberto Caeiro (heteronym) 4.38 avg rating — 335 ratings — published 1957 — 19 editions	My rating:
	Poesia Poesie by Fernando Pessoa, Alberto Caeiro 4.41 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Unknown Book 2832175 by Fernando Pessoa, Ricardo Reis, Alberto Caeiro 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Briefe an die Braut. by Fernando Pessoa, Alberto Caeiro 3.08 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1988 — 3 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Alberto Caeiro

“Podem rezar latim sobre o meu caixão, se quiserem.
Se quiserem, podem dançar e cantar à roda dele.
Não tenho preferências para quando já não puder ter preferências.
O que for, quando for, é que será o que é.”
― Alberto Caeiro

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“Pensar incomoda como andar à chuva
Quando o vento cresce e parece que chove mais.”
― Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep

tags: poetry

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“Nem sempre consigo sentir o que sei que devo sentir.
O meu pensamento só muito devagar atravessa o rio a nado
Porque lhe pesa o fato que os homens o fizeram usar.”
― Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep

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