Cecilia Meireles was a writer, journalist, painter and teacher. She is considered the first female voice of great notoriety in Brazilian literature, with more than 50 published works.
Upon reaching the age of majority, at the age of 18, the poet published the work Spectrums. In addition to poems, Cecília became known for her short stories, chronicles, children's literature and folkloric narratives.
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Talking about happiness, love, life, education and freedom, the quotes by Cecília Meireles became known in the social imaginary. See some of them!
There are people who talk to us and we don't even listen to them, there are people who hurt us and don't even leave scars, but there are people who simply appear in our lives and mark us forever.
If in an instant you are born and an instant you die, an instant is enough for a lifetime.
Freedom is a word that the human dream feeds, there is no one who explains it and no one who does not understand.
I learned with the springs to let myself be cut and always come back whole.
I will love you from afar – from the peaceful distance where love is longing and desire is constancy.
I have phases, like the moon; phases of being alone, phases of being yours alone.
Spring will come, even if no one else knows its name, or believes in the calendar, or has a garden to welcome it.
I began to sing about my pity with such a sweet word, so serenely, that even God thought it was happiness – and not pity.
I sing because the instant exists and my life is complete. I am neither happy nor sad: I am a poet.
A friend called me to take care of his pain, I kept mine in my pocket. And I went.
When I still couldn't read, I played with books and imagined them full of voices, telling the world.
I travel alone with my heart. I'm not lost, but misplaced. I take my way on my hand.
For love is not sweet, for good is not sweet, for tomorrow, like yesterday, freedom is bitter.
Light is the bird: and its flying shadow, lighter.
Above us, around us words fly and sometimes land.
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