Superb Sentences: Cecília Meireles

A series of beautiful phrases, sentences, and excerpts from Brazilian literature leading up to Brazil’s National Day of the Book on October 29.

A journalist, painter, poet, and author who was a central figure in Brazilian modernism, Cecília Meireles (1901-1964) said : “Há pessoas que nos falam e nem as escutamos, há pessoas que nos ferem e nem cicatrizes deixam mas há pessoas que simplesmente aparecem em nossas vidas e nos marcam para sempre.”

There are people who talk to us and we don’t even hear 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.