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" Between what i see in a field and what I see in another field
There passes for a moment the figure of a man.
His steps go with “him” in the same reality,
But I look at him and them, and they’re two things:
The “man” goes walking with his ideas, false and foreign,
And his steps go with the ancient system that makes legs walk.
I see him from a distance without any opinion at all.
How perfect that he is in him what he is — his body,
His true reality which doesn’t have desires or hopes,
But muscles and the sure and impersonal way of using them. "

Alberto Caeiro , The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro


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Alberto Caeiro quote : Between what i see in a field and what I see in another field<br />There passes for a moment the figure of a man.<br />His steps go with “him” in the same reality,<br />But I look at him and them, and they’re two things:<br />The “man” goes walking with his ideas, false and foreign,<br />And his steps go with the ancient system that makes legs walk.<br />I see him from a distance without any opinion at all.<br />How perfect that he is in him what he is — his body,<br />His true reality which doesn’t have desires or hopes,<br />But muscles and the sure and impersonal way of using them.