"A life is not enough to just be lived: it also needs to be dreamed" (Mario Quintana)
"Among so many crazy and free people, there is one who is sweet and who I am missing" (Alice Ruiz)
"And this is the greatest of sufferings: to have no one to miss, to pass through life and not live. The greatest of sufferings is to have never suffered..." (Pablo Neruda)
"So many books on the shelf. And I end up leafing through my heart" (Eugênio Leandro)
"I complain to the roses, but what nonsense. Roses do not speak" (Cartola)
"You sing in the city, here in the hinterlands I face. Hunger, pain, and misery. To be a true poet, one must have suffering" (Patativa do Assaré)
"Desires to bite you. Letters to seal you. Sex to tremble. Tales to enchant you" (Zelia Duncan)
"Perhaps it is the breeze. That wanders at the end of the road, Perhaps it is the silence, Perhaps it is nothing..." (Fernando Pessoa)
"I told the word to rhyme, it did not obey me. It spoke of sea, of sky, of rose, of Greek, of silence, of prose. It seemed beside itself, the silent syllable" (Paulo Leminski)
"I only visited the stars to tell you. How beautiful your gaze was. Seen from there" (Amauri Falabella)
"The first love passed, the second love passed, the third love passed. But the heart continues" (Carlos Drummond de Andrade)
"Time makes everything worth it. And not even a mistake is a waste" (Ana Carolina)
"Longing is the sad side. The sun of the following morning. Over the remains of a banquet" (Celso Viáfora)
"Organize hope, lead the storm, break the walls of the night. Create without asking permission, a world of freedom" (Pedro Tierra)
"Men ask for meat. Fire. Shoes. Laws are not enough. Lilies are not born from the law" (Carlos Drummond de Andrade)
"How then to interpret, what the heroes do not tell? How to conquer the ocean, if navigation is free. But making boats is forbidden?" (Carlos Drummond de Andrade)
"I woke up flat. Everything was sharp. The sun was shining. It just didn't make sense" (Paulo Leminski)
"I did not have this face of today, so calm, so sad, so thin. Nor these eyes so empty, nor the bitter lip" (Cecília Meireles)
"If by chance we crossed paths it would be a serious matter, you would laugh until dawn, I would laugh until it happened" (Alice Ruiz)
"I am a bird. They lock me in a cage. And expect me to sing like before" (Renato Russo)
"If possible I would freeze many pieces of the cake, so that during the needy year, I could eat them as comfort." (Elisa)
"Father, I am already leaving. I want to depart without fighting. For I have already chosen my shoe. That will no longer pinch me" (Raul Seixas)
"...and so as not to fall, to assert myself on the earth, to continue fighting, leave in my heart the wandering wine and the implacable bread of your sweetness" (Pablo Neruda)
"I do not ponder, I dream. I do not feel inspired, I rave" (Fernando Pessoa)
"Overflowing with flowers. The calm of the lakes grew angry. The compass rose went mad. The riverbeds had their fill. And flooded with sweet water. The bitterness of the sea." (Chico Buarque)
"To understand, one must think that life is not just what is seen. It is a little more that the eyes cannot perceive, that the hands dare not touch and the feet refuse to tread" (Paulinho da Viola)
"Souls are incommunicable. Let your body understand itself with another body. Because bodies understand each other, but souls do not." (Manuel Bandeira)
"To make a web in a minute the spider charges little, just a mosquito" (Paulo Leminski)
"So you keep staying over there, I keep staying over here, avoiding, diverting, always thinking, if by chance, we crossed paths..." (Alice Ruiz)
"Here lies a great poet. He left nothing written. This silence, I believe, is his complete works." (Paulo Leminski)
