To be a poet is to dream awake. - Fernando Pessoa

"To be a poet is to dream awake."

Fernando Pessoa

Poet Portuguese 1888–1935

More from Fernando Pessoa

"I am not I; I am this one walking beside me whom I do not see."

"To be great, be whole; exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you."

"The worst prison people live in is the fear of what other people think."

"I love without knowing how, or what, or even if I exist."