916 Quotes by Fernando Pessoa

To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor Because it blooms up above.

We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.

I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities.

We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky.

I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.

I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.

I believe that saying a thing is to keep its virtues and take away its terror.

To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing. Be whole in everything.

Be what I think? But I think of being so many things!