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Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa foi um poeta, escritor, crítico literário, tradutor e filósofo português, considerado um dos maiores expoentes da literatura em língua portuguesa e um dos mais relevantes poetas do século XX. A sua vasta obra, marcada pela criação de múltiplos heterónimos com personalidades e estilos distintos, explora temas como a identidade, a angústia existencial, a saudade e a busca por significado num mundo em constante transformação. Pessoa deixou um legado literário complexo e multifacetado, que continua a fascinar e a desafiar leitores e críticos.
1888-06-13 Lisboa
1935-11-30 Lisboa
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SONNET OF A SCEPTIC
Long ere now Phoebus sunk in western skies
Behind his dreamy hills of tinted rose;
When I in pain my troubled eyelids close
And look upon the world that in me lies.
For in the night the silent river flows,
In darkness hid the bat unheeded flies:
In my soul's night, alas! no calmness lies,
With Nature's night too well my horror grows.
Darkness I hate, for I am like the night,
And yet in me no star, serenely bright,
The clouds of mind and soul so purely clears.
But as night with its pall of shades of old,
Unheard, unseen, l sit in heatless cold,
Enwrapped in my doubts and in my fears.
Behind his dreamy hills of tinted rose;
When I in pain my troubled eyelids close
And look upon the world that in me lies.
For in the night the silent river flows,
In darkness hid the bat unheeded flies:
In my soul's night, alas! no calmness lies,
With Nature's night too well my horror grows.
Darkness I hate, for I am like the night,
And yet in me no star, serenely bright,
The clouds of mind and soul so purely clears.
But as night with its pall of shades of old,
Unheard, unseen, l sit in heatless cold,
Enwrapped in my doubts and in my fears.
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