My gaze is clear as a sunflower. I have a habit of walking the streets looking left and right and sometimes looking behind me. And what I see at all times is what I had never seen before, and I know it very well. I can have the essential amazement that a child would have if, in being born, he realized that he was really born. I feel born at all times for the eternal novelty of the world. I believe in the world like a daisy, because I see it. But I don’t think about it, because thinking is not understanding. The world was not made because we think of it, (thinking is an infirmity of the eyes) but to look at it and be in harmony with it. I have no philosophy: I have senses. If I speak of Nature, it is not because I know what it is, but because I love it, and I love it because the one who loves never knows what he loves, nor knows why he loves, nor what it is to love. Loving is eternal innocence, and the only innocence is not thinking.
My gaze is clear as a sunflower BY FERNANDO PESSOA
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa was a Portuguese poet, writer and aphorist. He is considered one of the greatest Portuguese-speaking poets, and for his value he is compared to Camões. The literary critic Harold Bloom defined him, alongside Pablo Neruda, the most representative poet of the twentieth century
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