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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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THOUGHT
How great a thing is thought! as through the gloom
Of stormy skies the sudden lightning curls,
As slow the storm in patience grim unfurls
Its mighty volume of resounding boom,
Thought comes, more bright than Reason's sun which hurls
Its constant beams around till verge of doom -
Or as the silver‑chequered shades which loom
'Neath Fancy's moon in windy queerest whirls.
Thought comes, but blinds the glaring mental sight,
But shakes our mind with echoes of its roar
And bears its force beyond our visual scope;
Horrible beauty and unpitying might
That often kills and tears, to rise no more,
The frailest fabric of a dreary hope.
Of stormy skies the sudden lightning curls,
As slow the storm in patience grim unfurls
Its mighty volume of resounding boom,
Thought comes, more bright than Reason's sun which hurls
Its constant beams around till verge of doom -
Or as the silver‑chequered shades which loom
'Neath Fancy's moon in windy queerest whirls.
Thought comes, but blinds the glaring mental sight,
But shakes our mind with echoes of its roar
And bears its force beyond our visual scope;
Horrible beauty and unpitying might
That often kills and tears, to rise no more,
The frailest fabric of a dreary hope.
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