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Luís de Camões on Anniversary

1520–1580 Portugal

← All quotes by Luís de Camões

8 quotes

The lover becomes the thing he loves
By virtue of much imagining;
Since what I long for is already in me,
The act of longing should be enough.

Landeg White in The Collected Lyric Poems of Luis de Camoes (2016)

Once you experience love, I'm persuaded
you'll know what I'm on about in my verses.

Landeg White in The Collected Lyric Poems of Luis de Camoes (2016)

My sins, my wild loves, and Fate herself
have all conspired against me.

Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition (2008)

Your own experience in love
will lead you through my verses' meaning.

No star from above
nor flower in the field
seems to me as fair
as the one I love.

That more would he serve, if life
Were not so short for love so long.

[Ah, Love...] which formed I don't know where,
That came I don't know how, and hurts I don't know why.

Poets of Portugal (2006)

Just like Love is yonder rose.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Luís de Camões (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.