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Fernando Pessoa

“To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor Because it blooms up above.”  ―  Fernando Pessoa ,  Poems of Fernando Pessoa

X- The Keeper of Sheep, Fernando Pessoa

I  I never kept sheep,  But it is as if I did keep them  My soul is that of a shepherd,  It knows the sun and the winds.  And walks hand in hand through seasons  To follow and to hear.  All the peace of Nature without people  Comes to sit beside me.  But I get sad like a sunset  In our imagination,  When the cold falls on the plains  And we feel the night coming  Like a butterfly through a window.  But my sadness is calming  Because it is natural and just  And is that should be in the soul  When it knows it already exists  And the hands pick flowers without the soul noticing it. 

Tabacaria - Álvaro de Campos

« I am nothing. I'll never be anything.  I can not wish to be anything. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams of the world. »  Fernando Pessoa, poetry of Álvaro de Campos- A Tabacaria

Lisbon revisited (1926)

Nothing binds me to anything. I want fifty things at once. With an anguish of longing hunger for flesh What I do not know who is - By undefined definitely ... Restless sleep, and live in a restless dream For restless sleepers, half dreaming. I closed all the doors and abstract required. Curtains ran every chance I could see the street. No cross found in the port number they gave me. I woke up to the same life that had fallen asleep. Until I dreamed armies suffered defeat. Even my dreams felt false to be dreamed. Until the desired life just fills me - until this life ... I understand the disjointed intervals; I write for lapses of fatigue; And that is boring to the boring throws me to the beach. I do not know what fate or future incumbent upon my affliction without a rudder; I do not know that the southern islands can not wait for me shipwrecked; or palm of literature at least give me a verse. No, I do not know this, or something else, or anything else ... ...

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I made of myself what I did not know how, And what I could have made of myself I failed to do. The domino costume that I wore was all wrong And I was immediately recognized as someone I was not and I did not deny it, and was lost. When I tried to take off the mask, It was stuck to my face. When I took it off and looked myself in the mirror, I had already grown old. I was drunk, and I no longer knew how to put on the costume that I had not taken off. I threw the mask away and slept in the dressing room Like a dog tolerated by the management Because it is harmless. And I am going to write this story to prove that I am sublime. .