the-amorous-shepherd

The Amorous Shepherd is a fruitless interlude, but those few poems are among the world__ greatest love poems, because they__e love poems about love, not about being poems. The poet loves because he loves, not because love exists.

he woman Caeiro fell in love with. I have no idea who she was, and I intend to never find out, not even out of curiosity. There are things of which the soul refuses to lose its ignorance.I__ perfectly aware no one__ obliged to reciprocate love, and great poets have nothing to do with being great lovers. But there__ a transcendent spite...Let her remain anonymous even to God!