In the words of the poet and critic António Cândido Franco, the poetry of Carlos Alberto Braga "...is one of the sources where remains the spiritual matter of the portuguese language." Poetry of the time and the elements - fire, water, air and earth, is one of the most singular and inovative works of the modern poetry in portuguese language. Another poet and critic, Laureano Silveira, said that "...the world, lost in the movement of time, has finaly found its poet".