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Only once in a while you become aware of your intrinsic nature, with sudden bursts of empty spaces, without any effort on your part, you come home, rejoice every breath so deep and so soothing, you relax, unfocused, you skip into timelessness. This is the greatest mystery, the greatest gift of existence, without any identification to your senses, no clutches of your old patterns of mind. Few Glimpses of Heaven on the earth! I have experienced, have you?

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But what you__e calling poetry is what everything is. It__ not even poetry _ it__ seeing. These materialists are blind. You told me they say space is infinite. Where do they see that in space?__nd I, disconcerted: __ut don__ you think of space as infinite? Can__ you conceive of space as infinite?___ don__ conceive of anything as being infinite. How could I conceive of anything as being infinite?___ut, man,_ I said, __magine space. Beyond that space is more space, and beyond that more, and then more, and more... It never ends...___hy?_ asked my master Caeiro.

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Live, you say, in the present;Live only in the present.But I don__ want the present, I want reality;I want things that exist, not time that measures them.What is the present?It__ something relative to the past and the future.It__ a thing that exists in virtue of other things existing.I only want reality, things without the present.I don__ want to include time in my scheme.I don__ want to think about things as present; I want to think of them as things.I don__ want to separate them from themselves, treating them as present.I shouldn__ even treat them as real.I should treat them as nothing.I should see them, only see them;See them till I can__ think about them.See them without time, without space,To see, dispensing with everything but what you see.And this is the science of seeing, which isn__ a science.

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Alberto Caeiro

The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro