80 poem phrases to be enchanted by the beauty of words

MOM… There are only three letters, those of that blessed name: three letters, nothing more… And in them the infinity fits.

Mario Quintana

I love you very much, my love, and so much that, having you, I love you more, and even more after having you, my love.

Jorge de Sena

Me without you I’m just loveless. A boat without sea, a field without flowers. Sadness that goes, sadness that comes. Without you, my love, am I nobody?

Vinicius de Moraes

Each verse of mine will be to tell you, that I know I will love you, for all my life.

Vinicius de Moraes

I ran to meet you. Smile. We talk. That day has been set.

Cora Coralina

I love as love loves. I know of no other reason to love than to love. What do you want me to tell you, besides that I love you, if what I want to say is that I love you?

Fernando Pessoa

I hope sadness convinces you that longing doesn’t pay off and that absence doesn’t give peace.

Vinicius de Moraes

If it weren’t for that, it was less. It wasn’t so much and it was almost.

Paulo Leminski

Deep down, deep down, deep down, we would like to see our problems resolved by decree.

Paulo Leminski

In this story only I die and I will die of love, because I want you, because I want you, love.

Pablo Neruda

The animal wasn’t a dog, it wasn’t a cat, it wasn’t a mouse. The animal, my God, was a man.

Manuel Bandeira

I’m sick of the restrained lyricism, the well-behaved lyricism.

Manuel Bandeira

If you knew how much I like your smell, your way of flower, you wouldn’t deny a kiss to someone who is lost in love.

Tom Jobim

It is not enough for me to know that I am loved. I don’t just want your love: I want to hold your delicate body in my arms, to have the sweetness of your kiss in my mouth.

Olavo Bilac

I looked at you. And I have understood for so long that I am earth. I have been waiting for so long that your most fraternal body of water will spread over mine.

Hilda Hilst

Only pain ennobles and is great and is pure. Learn to love her and you will love her one day. Then she will be your joy, and she alone will be your happiness…

Manuel Bandeira

Look at me again. With less haughtiness. And more attentive.

Hilda Hilst

Of this little poem, the verse; the famous and unexpected verse that will leave you amazed, surprised, perplexed… I love you, forgive me, I love you…

Cora Coralina

My love has two lives to love you.

Pablo Neruda

Love is the privilege of mature people stretched out on the narrowest bed, which becomes the widest and grassiest, rubbing, in every pore, the sky of the body.

Carlos Drummond deAndrade

Love is what one learns at the limit, after shelving all the inherited science, heard. Love starts late.

Carlos Drummond deAndrade

I love you like the plant that didn’t bloom and has the light of flowers inside it, hidden.

Pablo Neruda

Between the root and the flower, there is time.

Carlos Drummond deAndrade

It was so beautiful to see you for the first time and think without words: I want to.

Caio Fernando Abreu

I will love you from afar – from the quiet distance, where love is longing and desire, constancy.

Cecília Meireles

When you see it, it’s already 6 o’clock: there’s time… When you see it, it’s already Friday… When you see it, 60 years have passed! Now, it’s too late to fail…

Mario Quintana

When I saw you I had a brilliant idea. It was as if I looked from the inside of a diamond and my eye gained a thousand faces in an instant.

Paulo Leminski

Only creatures who never wrote love letters are ridiculous.

Fernando Pessoa

Fundamental is love, it is impossible to be happy alone.

Tom Jobim

I don’t argue with fate, what to paint, I sign.

Paulo Leminski

Recreate your life, always, always. Remove stones and plant roses and make candy. Restart.

Cora Coralina

Beloved life, my death delay.

Hilda Hilst

My love is like that, without any shame. When it presses, I shout from the window — hear whoever is passing — hey so-and-so, come quickly.

Adelia Prado

I have phases, like the moon; phases of being alone, phases of being alone.

Cecília Meireles

Suddenly, no more than suddenly, he became sad what became lover and alone what became happy.

Vinicius de Moraes

Doubt the light of the stars. That the sun is hot. Doubt even the truth, but trust in my love.

William Shakespeare

Loving is the only thing that can occupy eternity.

Victor Hugo

Sleep, that life is nothing! Sleep, everything is in vain! If anyone found the road, he found it in confusion, with a deceived soul.

Fernando Pessoa

But the moment will come when you will hold my hand, no longer out of loneliness, but as I do now: out of love.

Clarice Lispector

Better the restlessness of a love, than the peace of an empty heart.

Caio Fernando Abreu

A day without you is a day without a smile. A lifetime with you is a lifetime smiling.

I don’t know how to live without surrendering, I don’t know how to love without being whole. This is my way of giving.

More would have served, if not. For so long love, so short life!

Luís de Camões

Live, run, feel, stop, breathe and do it all over again.

Time doesn’t come back, but we recover life when we decide to live it.

My thoughts take me to great trips, but my favorite destination is still by your side.

Walking is discovering the beauty of life in motion.

Without love, the human being would not move. Without love, we would live in agony.

I want to live intensely. After all, why go diving if not headfirst?

When death steals light from me, gain in a moment what you lost years, know how to die what to live I didn’t know.

mouthpiece

Don’t be scared by the urge to change. Life is metamorphosis and we are caterpillars turning into butterflies all the time.

Life is a garden and some choose to see roses; others, the thorns.

It amazes me, therefore, to see such a clear light fertilize my songs, my heart – look at how spikes grow among human rubble…

Bruno Tolentino

A single moment is all I need to remember because I want to live long enough.

I wrote my verse thinking of you, hoping it would bring you to me.

Who does not love, loses the enthusiasm of life by extinguishing its flame.

One step forward, two steps back. I live in the ebb and flow of life until I find my chain.

I do not remember what was our beginning. I know that we did not start from the beginning. It was love before it was.

Clarice Lispector

And there is no better response than the spectacle of life: to see it unravel its thread, which is also called life, to see the factory that it stubbornly manufactures itself, to see it sprout like a new exploded life… Even when it’s the explosion of a harsh life.

Joao Cabral de Melo Neto

No lying, no mistrust. I live to smile, I live to love.

The art of loving is the same as being a poet.

Cecília Meireles

Art is what brings me inspiration. I’m not the one who needs inspiration to make art.

At the tip of the pencil, the words unravel by themselves. At the tip of the pencil, I trace my own lines.

There is today for so much yesterday.

Paulo Leminski

In place of anger, I put action. And so, I live in constant transformation.

By the waters of life, I’m getting wet with love, joy and hope.

Love can take us to hell or heaven, but it always takes us somewhere.

Paulo Coelho

But in the Sun, and in the Light, firmness is lacking, in beauty there is no constancy, and in joy one feels sadness, the world finally begins with ignorance, and has any of the goods by nature. Firmness only in inconstancy.

Gregorio de Matos

There is no place or day for those who want to find, in peace or joy for those who, for loving, in those who love trust.

Fernando Pessoa

He does not die who left the melody of his song on earth in the music of his verses.

Cora Coralina

May this love not blind me or follow me. And never notice myself. That excludes me from being persecuted and from the torment of just because he knows I’m being.

Hilda Hilst

May this love only see me from the start.

Hilda Hilst

All said, nothing done, I stare and lie down.

Paulo Leminski

The friend: a being that life doesn’t explain that only leaves when he sees another being born and the mirror of my soul multiplies…

Vinicius de Moraes