20 Phrases by Carlos Drummond that are true life lessons

Carlos Drummond de Andrade was a miner who lived in a period defined by great combats. A time that was marked by the First and Second World War, the bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and other conflicts. These elements were essential for his poems to become full of social criticism. Its importance for Brazil was such that Drummond got a statue in the middle of the Copacabana promenade.

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“The world is big and fits in this window over the sea. The sea is big and fits on the bed and on the loving mattress. Love is great and fits in the brief space of kissing

“Wasting time learning things that are not interesting deprives us of discovering interesting things”

“Like plants, friendship should not be watered too much or too little”

“Be happy for no reason is the most authentic form of happiness”

“No one is equal to anyone. Every human being is a unique stranger.”

“Only a fighter is someone who knows how to fight with himself”

“There is a certain pleasure in thinking alone. It is an individual act, like being born and dying.”

“There are books written to avoid empty spaces on the shelf”

“There are many reasons to doubt and only one to believe”

“Difficulties are the structural steel that goes into building character”

“The bank vault contains only cash; It frustrates anyone who thinks that he will find wealth there”

“Reading is an inexhaustible source of pleasure, but, incredible as it may seem, almost all people do not feel that thirst”

“Easy is hugging, shaking hands, kissing with your eyes closed. It is difficult to feel the energy that is transmitted. The one that takes over your body like an electric current when you touch the right person.”

“If the first and last thought of your day is that person, if the desire to be together touches your heart: it is love!”

“For a long time I thought that absence is a lack. And lamented, ignorant, the lack. Today, I don’t regret it. There is no shortage in absence. The absence is a being in me. And I feel her, white, so close, snuggled in my arms, that I laugh and dance and make up happy exclamations, because absence, that assimilated absence, no one steals from me anymore.”

“If you look hard enough, you’ll find it. Not the (doubtful) explanation of life. But the (inexplicable) poetry of life”

“Life is renewed in the hope of a new day”

“Each day I live, I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we don’t give, in the strength we don’t use, in the selfish prudence that risks nothing, and that, dodging suffering, we also lose happiness. Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional

“It is not enough to feel the arrival of beautiful days. It is necessary to proclaim: the days were beautiful”

“We also miss what didn’t exist, and it hurts a lot”

Drummond’s poems make individuals question their place in this technological world, filled with wars and weapons. On the other hand, his writings do not fail to show that life is a veritable oscillation between drama and hypocrisy.

And do you agree with his perspective? Do you believe that’s what life comes down to?