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("Thoughts from the Portuguese of Fernando Pessoa", translated by Thomas Merton

 

 

When my gaze is clear I think and write the way flowers wear color,

yet less perfectly is my mode of expression for I lack the divine

simplicity of being entirely myself and nothing more. When I look I

am moved-- and I am nature-- the breeze rising lightly-- a wind going

by. I do not bother with rhymes. I have no philosophy. If I talk of

nature, that is not because I know what nature is but because I love

it. My village creek is great because it's free. The best mysticism

is simple and does not think. It lives on the top of a hill in a

lonely whitewashed house and sings to the rivers. The flying bird

leaves no trace nor marks the earth with her track. She flies by the

mystery of things. And as for the sun each morning-- It rises on

time

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