60 phrases by Cecília Meireles for those who are neither happy nor sad

What are days made of? Of small desires, slow longings and silent memories.

There are people who talk to us and we don’t even listen to them, there are people who hurt us and leave no scars, but there are people who simply appear in our lives and mark us forever.

Spring will come, even if no one else knows its name, doesn’t believe in the calendar, or has a garden to welcome it.

If in an instant you are born and an instant you die, an instant is enough for a lifetime.

Even if it’s late and in vain, I’ll ask why everything I wanted more alive had written on top of it: “No”.

Every time a righteous man shouts, an executioner comes to silence. Those who are no good stay alive, those who are good are killed.

The life only is possible reinvented.

In all my life, I have never tried hard to win or been surprised to lose. The notion or feeling of the transience of everything is the very foundation of my personality.

My childhood as a girl alone gave me two things that seem negative and have always been positive for me: silence and solitude.

Life is poor, the weather is sad, but music rocks the days, from morning to night.