Cecília Meireles's best-known lines (with the poem)
The top 3 according to 36 votes from people: I sing because the instant exists / and my life is complete. / I am neither happy nor sad: / I am a poet. · I don't know whether to play or study, / to run out or stay calm. · I learned from the springs / to let myself be cut / and always come back whole.. (Updated Nov 9, 2021.)
"I sing because the instant exists", "Life is only possible reinvented" and "Freedom, that word that feeds the human dream": the lines of Brazilian poet Cecília Meireles everyone knows, from Viagem to the Romanceiro da Inconfidência and Ou Isto ou Aquilo, with their poem, leaving out the quotes wrongly attributed to her.
Automatically translated (original in Português). See the original
Top 11
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1
I sing because the instant exists / and my life is complete. / I am neither happy nor sad: / I am a poet.
Poem "Motive", Viagem (1939).
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2
I don't know whether to play or study, / to run out or stay calm.
Poem "Either This or That", Ou Isto ou Aquilo (1964).
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3
I learned from the springs / to let myself be cut / and always come back whole.
Poem "Drawing", Mar Absoluto (1945).
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4
I did not have this face of today, / so calm, so sad, so thin.
Poem "Portrait", Viagem (1939).
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5
In what mirror / was my face lost?
Poem "Portrait", Viagem (1939).
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6
Between me and myself there are vastnesses enough / for my anguished desires to sail.
Poem "Noções" (Notions).
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7
The more I fall to pieces, / the more whole and serene I become.
Poem "Drawing", Mar Absoluto (1945).
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8
Life is only possible / reinvented.
Poem "Reinvention", Vaga Música (1942).
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9
Freedom, that word / fed by the human dream, / that no one can explain / and no one fails to understand.
Romanceiro da Inconfidência (1953), Romance XXIV.
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10
Either you have rain and no sun / or you have sun and no rain!
Poem "Either This or That", Ou Isto ou Aquilo (1964).
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11
The wind is the same: / but its answer is different in every leaf.
Poem "O vento" (The Wind).
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