50 phrases by Carlos Drummond de Andrade to take with.webp

50 phrases by Carlos Drummond de Andrade to take with you in your pocket

1 Everything is possible, only I am impossible.

2 There is a certain joy in thinking alone. It is an individual act, like being born and dying.

3 We must educate Brazil.

4 My verse is my cachaça. Everyone has their cachaça.

5 We can drink our beer with honor.

6 There are books that are written in such a way as to avoid empty spaces on the shelf.

7 The difficult thing, the extraordinary thing, is not to score a thousand goals like Pelé, but to score one goal like Pelé.

8 Freedom is defended with speeches and attacked with machine guns.

9 My will is strong, but my willingness to obey it is weak.

10 Gentle crimes that make your life easier…

11 — People enjoy football and carnival. These are your two dream sources.

12 The sadness of watching the afternoon fall like a leaf.

13 If my verse didn’t work, it was your ear that was bent.

14 There are many reasons to doubt and only one to believe.

15 I only have two hands and a feel for the world.

16 In adultery there are at least three people who make mistakes.

17 Friendship, like plants, should not be watered too much or too little.

18 Difficulties are the structural steel, which shapes the character of the building.

19 Whoever loves without love will not have the kingdom of heaven.

20 Hurry up, love can’t wait!

21 The bank safe only contains money; Anyone who thinks they will find wealth there is frustrated.

22 It is not easy to have patience with those who have excessive patience.

23 My verse is my comfort.

24 Stop. Did life stop or was it the car?

25 The earth did not suffer to produce these flowers.

26 Well, after all, life is a brutal romance and we live series without knowing it.

27 God abandoned me in the middle of an orgy between a Bahian woman and an Egyptian woman.

28 And love always follows this tone: Fight forgives, fight forgives.

29 You shouldn’t curse life, we live, then we forget.

30 Men are like coins; We must take them at face value, no matter what they are.

31 We must always strive for something that, once achieved, does not make us ambitious.

32 Education for suffering would avoid feeling it, in relation to cases that do not deserve it.

33 Sex, that little feminine point around which the machine of the world revolves.

34 Love in the dark, no, in the light, is always sad, my son.

35 The event is not over yet and the reporter’s nervous hand is already turning it into news.

36 There are several reasons not to love a person and only one reason for loving him.

37 — Speaking for me are those who were dirty with grief and intense disgust above all, who came to the cinema with the desperation of rats fleeing their lives, it’s two hours of anesthesia, let’s listen to some music, let’s have that Watching pictures in the cinema is dark and you have discovered and saved yourself.

38 Poetry cannot be communicated.

39 Eternal is everything that lasts a fraction of a second, but with such intensity that it petrifies and no power can ever save…

40 Men are distinguished by what they do, women by what they make men do.

41 The disillusioned remain blinded, without heart, without courage, without love.

42 There will come a time when people will no longer say, “My God.”

43 Friendship is a way to isolate ourselves from humanity by cultivating some people.

44 Nobody is like anyone else. Every person is a unique stranger.

45 Only those who know how to fight with themselves are fighters.

46 May the poet guide and protect us.

47 In vain they murdered poetry in books.

48 The sum of life is zero.

49 And I didn’t know that my story was more beautiful than Robinson Crusoe’s.

50 Being happy for no reason is the most authentic form of happiness.