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Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa

Diálogo na treva?

Cresce em mim uma onda de agonia
E de calado horror que surge e salta
Pelas cavernas fundas da minha alma
E em fissuras ocultas do meu ser
Aponta-as aparecendo, uma onda turva
Duma maré silenciosa e escura
Que cresce e ocupa-me e me afoga em mim.
Quero fugir-lhe e soerguer-me, abrir
Um voo e ela sobe-me, silente,
Em     (...)  naufragadora.
Cresce em mim e eu transido desse horror
Vejo sempre mais perto do que cria
Sempre em remotas dobras elevando-se
Das solidões do meu ser e cada vez
Mais dentro em mim.

Sois um desejo, uma ânsia, uma agonia?
O que quereis, que me impelis subindo
Não sei para que horror velando um fim?
Para que sou eu vosso? Aonde levais
Esta alma que só sabe resistir? Ergueis-me
Em guerra contra o ser, e eu odeio
O que vejo em minha frente, O Imediato.
Por isso, oh mares, sóis, estrelas, ventos,
Oh enigmas parados numa vida
De enigmas cheia desprendidamente,
Eu dou-vos vida só para odiar-vos,
Eu não sou vosso. Deste dia avante
Sou o inimigo de ser, sou o hórrido,
(...)
O crime eterno de não ter razão
De existir e fitar-me. Digo adeus
A tudo que se pode amar ou crer,
A tudo que na terra vive ou dorme.
Cousas com um sol exterior vão [...]
Eu faço-vos escuras do meu ódio.
Caia uma treva imensa na minh’alma
Para com tudo, seja eu a noite,
Esquecendo-se em ser.
                                      Sobe,
Avassala-me, túrbida corrente,
Mas tu e eu em ti. Ciência,
Eu substituo-vos a escuridão
Da essência do meu ser e vosso ser.
1 356
Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa

Diálogo na treva?

Cresce em mim uma onda de agonia
E de calado horror que surge e salta
Pelas cavernas fundas da minha alma
E em fissuras ocultas do meu ser
Aponta-as aparecendo, uma onda turva
Duma maré silenciosa e escura
Que cresce e ocupa-me e me afoga em mim.
Quero fugir-lhe e soerguer-me, abrir
Um voo e ela sobe-me, silente,
Em     (...)  naufragadora.
Cresce em mim e eu transido desse horror
Vejo sempre mais perto do que cria
Sempre em remotas dobras elevando-se
Das solidões do meu ser e cada vez
Mais dentro em mim.

Sois um desejo, uma ânsia, uma agonia?
O que quereis, que me impelis subindo
Não sei para que horror velando um fim?
Para que sou eu vosso? Aonde levais
Esta alma que só sabe resistir? Ergueis-me
Em guerra contra o ser, e eu odeio
O que vejo em minha frente, O Imediato.
Por isso, oh mares, sóis, estrelas, ventos,
Oh enigmas parados numa vida
De enigmas cheia desprendidamente,
Eu dou-vos vida só para odiar-vos,
Eu não sou vosso. Deste dia avante
Sou o inimigo de ser, sou o hórrido,
(...)
O crime eterno de não ter razão
De existir e fitar-me. Digo adeus
A tudo que se pode amar ou crer,
A tudo que na terra vive ou dorme.
Cousas com um sol exterior vão [...]
Eu faço-vos escuras do meu ódio.
Caia uma treva imensa na minh’alma
Para com tudo, seja eu a noite,
Esquecendo-se em ser.
                                      Sobe,
Avassala-me, túrbida corrente,
Mas tu e eu em ti. Ciência,
Eu substituo-vos a escuridão
Da essência do meu ser e vosso ser.
1 356
Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa

Diálogo na treva?

Cresce em mim uma onda de agonia
E de calado horror que surge e salta
Pelas cavernas fundas da minha alma
E em fissuras ocultas do meu ser
Aponta-as aparecendo, uma onda turva
Duma maré silenciosa e escura
Que cresce e ocupa-me e me afoga em mim.
Quero fugir-lhe e soerguer-me, abrir
Um voo e ela sobe-me, silente,
Em     (...)  naufragadora.
Cresce em mim e eu transido desse horror
Vejo sempre mais perto do que cria
Sempre em remotas dobras elevando-se
Das solidões do meu ser e cada vez
Mais dentro em mim.

Sois um desejo, uma ânsia, uma agonia?
O que quereis, que me impelis subindo
Não sei para que horror velando um fim?
Para que sou eu vosso? Aonde levais
Esta alma que só sabe resistir? Ergueis-me
Em guerra contra o ser, e eu odeio
O que vejo em minha frente, O Imediato.
Por isso, oh mares, sóis, estrelas, ventos,
Oh enigmas parados numa vida
De enigmas cheia desprendidamente,
Eu dou-vos vida só para odiar-vos,
Eu não sou vosso. Deste dia avante
Sou o inimigo de ser, sou o hórrido,
(...)
O crime eterno de não ter razão
De existir e fitar-me. Digo adeus
A tudo que se pode amar ou crer,
A tudo que na terra vive ou dorme.
Cousas com um sol exterior vão [...]
Eu faço-vos escuras do meu ódio.
Caia uma treva imensa na minh’alma
Para com tudo, seja eu a noite,
Esquecendo-se em ser.
                                      Sobe,
Avassala-me, túrbida corrente,
Mas tu e eu em ti. Ciência,
Eu substituo-vos a escuridão
Da essência do meu ser e vosso ser.
1 356
Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa

Diálogo na treva?

Cresce em mim uma onda de agonia
E de calado horror que surge e salta
Pelas cavernas fundas da minha alma
E em fissuras ocultas do meu ser
Aponta-as aparecendo, uma onda turva
Duma maré silenciosa e escura
Que cresce e ocupa-me e me afoga em mim.
Quero fugir-lhe e soerguer-me, abrir
Um voo e ela sobe-me, silente,
Em     (...)  naufragadora.
Cresce em mim e eu transido desse horror
Vejo sempre mais perto do que cria
Sempre em remotas dobras elevando-se
Das solidões do meu ser e cada vez
Mais dentro em mim.

Sois um desejo, uma ânsia, uma agonia?
O que quereis, que me impelis subindo
Não sei para que horror velando um fim?
Para que sou eu vosso? Aonde levais
Esta alma que só sabe resistir? Ergueis-me
Em guerra contra o ser, e eu odeio
O que vejo em minha frente, O Imediato.
Por isso, oh mares, sóis, estrelas, ventos,
Oh enigmas parados numa vida
De enigmas cheia desprendidamente,
Eu dou-vos vida só para odiar-vos,
Eu não sou vosso. Deste dia avante
Sou o inimigo de ser, sou o hórrido,
(...)
O crime eterno de não ter razão
De existir e fitar-me. Digo adeus
A tudo que se pode amar ou crer,
A tudo que na terra vive ou dorme.
Cousas com um sol exterior vão [...]
Eu faço-vos escuras do meu ódio.
Caia uma treva imensa na minh’alma
Para com tudo, seja eu a noite,
Esquecendo-se em ser.
                                      Sobe,
Avassala-me, túrbida corrente,
Mas tu e eu em ti. Ciência,
Eu substituo-vos a escuridão
Da essência do meu ser e vosso ser.
1 356
Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa

Never have I so deeply felt my exclusion from mankind.

Never have I so deeply felt my exclusion from mankind.
To one side the sane, to the other side the lame and the halt and the blind;
To one side the healthy, the good, the strong, those in life's prime,
To the other side the slaves of genius, of madness, of crime.
Build prisons and hospitals and Bedlams. To one side the glad,
To the other side the sickly, the stupid, the ill and the mad.

At no time have I felt so deep the gulf between me and men.
Is it idiocy, madness or crime, or genius - or what is this pain?
I have felt it to-day with full truth and have felt to remember it well:
I am one thrown aside ‑ a torturer and tortured in my being's hell;
Yet I asked not to live, nor had choice of my living's rotten worth,
I had no power on my life, nor am I guilty of my birth.

So I shall sing my song without hope, cheerless and forlorn,
That men may learn - at least they may laugh - to what some hearts are born;
Song all mystery, all symbols, contradictions in ignoble dance,
But that this is madness complete not the smallest ignorance;
Song all of tortures of soul, of a being's human abysm
And never a doubt but this is but raving egotism;
Song of evil, song of hate, song of revolt, song of love
Of Nature, of Mother Nature, the earth at my feet and the sky above;
Song of the hatred of customs, of creeds, of conventions, of institutions
Song of madness unpondering to human prostitutions;
Song of one that better were dead, song of one set aside,
Song of one that hell and earth conspired and combined to deride.

Peace! let the sane be set on that side and the mad on this side.
1 507
Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa

Never have I so deeply felt my exclusion from mankind.

Never have I so deeply felt my exclusion from mankind.
To one side the sane, to the other side the lame and the halt and the blind;
To one side the healthy, the good, the strong, those in life's prime,
To the other side the slaves of genius, of madness, of crime.
Build prisons and hospitals and Bedlams. To one side the glad,
To the other side the sickly, the stupid, the ill and the mad.

At no time have I felt so deep the gulf between me and men.
Is it idiocy, madness or crime, or genius - or what is this pain?
I have felt it to-day with full truth and have felt to remember it well:
I am one thrown aside ‑ a torturer and tortured in my being's hell;
Yet I asked not to live, nor had choice of my living's rotten worth,
I had no power on my life, nor am I guilty of my birth.

So I shall sing my song without hope, cheerless and forlorn,
That men may learn - at least they may laugh - to what some hearts are born;
Song all mystery, all symbols, contradictions in ignoble dance,
But that this is madness complete not the smallest ignorance;
Song all of tortures of soul, of a being's human abysm
And never a doubt but this is but raving egotism;
Song of evil, song of hate, song of revolt, song of love
Of Nature, of Mother Nature, the earth at my feet and the sky above;
Song of the hatred of customs, of creeds, of conventions, of institutions
Song of madness unpondering to human prostitutions;
Song of one that better were dead, song of one set aside,
Song of one that hell and earth conspired and combined to deride.

Peace! let the sane be set on that side and the mad on this side.
1 507
Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa

Never have I so deeply felt my exclusion from mankind.

Never have I so deeply felt my exclusion from mankind.
To one side the sane, to the other side the lame and the halt and the blind;
To one side the healthy, the good, the strong, those in life's prime,
To the other side the slaves of genius, of madness, of crime.
Build prisons and hospitals and Bedlams. To one side the glad,
To the other side the sickly, the stupid, the ill and the mad.

At no time have I felt so deep the gulf between me and men.
Is it idiocy, madness or crime, or genius - or what is this pain?
I have felt it to-day with full truth and have felt to remember it well:
I am one thrown aside ‑ a torturer and tortured in my being's hell;
Yet I asked not to live, nor had choice of my living's rotten worth,
I had no power on my life, nor am I guilty of my birth.

So I shall sing my song without hope, cheerless and forlorn,
That men may learn - at least they may laugh - to what some hearts are born;
Song all mystery, all symbols, contradictions in ignoble dance,
But that this is madness complete not the smallest ignorance;
Song all of tortures of soul, of a being's human abysm
And never a doubt but this is but raving egotism;
Song of evil, song of hate, song of revolt, song of love
Of Nature, of Mother Nature, the earth at my feet and the sky above;
Song of the hatred of customs, of creeds, of conventions, of institutions
Song of madness unpondering to human prostitutions;
Song of one that better were dead, song of one set aside,
Song of one that hell and earth conspired and combined to deride.

Peace! let the sane be set on that side and the mad on this side.
1 507
Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa

IN THE STREET

I pass before the windows lit
        With inward, curtained light,
And in the houses I see flit
Now and again shadows that hit
        The curtain's yellowed white.
Others a little gleam but show:
Inside, the people chat, I know.

And I feel cold and feel alone,
        Not that I no one have,
But - ah that dreams should ne’er be done! -
That among many I am one,
        As among flowers a grave;
One, and more lonely than can be
Imagined conceivably.

If l were born not to aspire
        Beyond the life that lead
These people whom life cannot tire,
Who chat and slumber by the fire
        Contentedly indeed,
Behind those curtains, by that light
That to the street is somewhat bright;

Could I no more aspire than these,
        Were all my wishes bound
In family or social ease,
In worldly, usual jollities
        Or children playing round,
Happy were I but to have then
The usual life of usual men.

But oh! I have within my heart
        Things that cannot keep still -
A mystic and delirious smart
That doth a restlessness impart,
        An ache, a woe, an ill;
I wearied Sysyphus I groan
Against the world's ironic stone.

I, the eternally excluded
        From socialness and mirth,
The aching heart whose mind has brooded
Till thought turned raving mad hath flooded
        The soul that gave it birth ­-
I weep to know I have in me
Aught at once joy and misery.

And cold before the normal, cold
        And fear‑struck I remain,
As one old, formidably old,
Who doth portentous secrets hold
        That he cannot explain
But which the world's show doth suggest
Unto his mind that knows not rest.

How good after dinner to chat
        And sit in half a sleep,
Without a duty‑sense to strike flat
All ease, all cosiness to abate
        An aspiration deep;
To have an ease no pains do throng
Nor felt as an ease that is wrong.

A home, a rest, a child, a wife ­-
        None of these are for me
Who wish for aught beyond this life
With an incessant inner strife
        That knows not victory.
Ay me! and none to comprehend
This wish that doth all things transcend.

Some in some theatre are away
        Or other place of joy
And keep, for ever glad and gay,
The hounds of thought and care at bay
        That cannot laugh or toy:
These are awaited in some homes,
A faint light from their windows comes.

A cosiness these homes must steep
        In something like a slumber,
And in that surface‑living deep
'Tis hard to know that hearts do keep.
        ......
Yet these are normal; I that sigh
And dread their living - what am I?

Oh joy! oh height of happiness!
        To wish no more than life,
To feel of pleasure, of distress,
A normal more, a normal less,
        By friend or child or wife!
None of these for my soul can be
For more than madness is in me.

I weep sad tears - oh, not to live
        As these in human joy!
Oh, that I could as much believe
As sense and custom joint can give
        Which living cannot cloy!
Man's happiness is poor, I know,
But true - a thing all unlike woe.

Sometimes I dream that I might sit
        By my own fire, and quiet
Might see my wife and children flit
Half in a sleep and not a whit
        In one of dreamy riot;
And I might noble be and pure
In mind, not stupid or obscure.

Sometimes I dream one of these homes
        Secluded socially
One for the many thousand tomes
Of life might keep my heart that roams
        Weak, desolate and free;
That quiet haply might console
My aching heart, my pining soul.

But as the thought of such a glad
        Existence simple here,
As if the thing a venom had
I shiver, tremble and grow sad
        As with a mystic fear;
I dread to think my life might pass
Like that of men, as is and was.

I dread to think of a life sweet
        By family and friends.
Mine eyes the finite that they meet
Abhor - the houses and the street.
        And all things that have ends.
I know not to what I aspire,
Yet know this I cannot desire.

So always incompatible
        And by the usual cold,
I go about, my own deep hell,
Hearing to toll in me the bell
        That tells me I grow old,
Yet this in such an accent strange
lt bears the mystery of Change.

And so - alas! must e'er I be
A stranger everywhere;
The leper in his leprosy
In his exclusion nears not me
        Who cannot living bear:
The world my home, my brother men
Are prisons, chains that bind and pen.

I pass. The windows are behind,
        And I forget their peace,
But tremble yet at what my mind
Conceives and feels; and in the wind
        I wander without cease,
Glad yet sad in me to perceive
Something none other can conceive.
1 560
Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa

IN THE STREET

I pass before the windows lit
        With inward, curtained light,
And in the houses I see flit
Now and again shadows that hit
        The curtain's yellowed white.
Others a little gleam but show:
Inside, the people chat, I know.

And I feel cold and feel alone,
        Not that I no one have,
But - ah that dreams should ne’er be done! -
That among many I am one,
        As among flowers a grave;
One, and more lonely than can be
Imagined conceivably.

If l were born not to aspire
        Beyond the life that lead
These people whom life cannot tire,
Who chat and slumber by the fire
        Contentedly indeed,
Behind those curtains, by that light
That to the street is somewhat bright;

Could I no more aspire than these,
        Were all my wishes bound
In family or social ease,
In worldly, usual jollities
        Or children playing round,
Happy were I but to have then
The usual life of usual men.

But oh! I have within my heart
        Things that cannot keep still -
A mystic and delirious smart
That doth a restlessness impart,
        An ache, a woe, an ill;
I wearied Sysyphus I groan
Against the world's ironic stone.

I, the eternally excluded
        From socialness and mirth,
The aching heart whose mind has brooded
Till thought turned raving mad hath flooded
        The soul that gave it birth ­-
I weep to know I have in me
Aught at once joy and misery.

And cold before the normal, cold
        And fear‑struck I remain,
As one old, formidably old,
Who doth portentous secrets hold
        That he cannot explain
But which the world's show doth suggest
Unto his mind that knows not rest.

How good after dinner to chat
        And sit in half a sleep,
Without a duty‑sense to strike flat
All ease, all cosiness to abate
        An aspiration deep;
To have an ease no pains do throng
Nor felt as an ease that is wrong.

A home, a rest, a child, a wife ­-
        None of these are for me
Who wish for aught beyond this life
With an incessant inner strife
        That knows not victory.
Ay me! and none to comprehend
This wish that doth all things transcend.

Some in some theatre are away
        Or other place of joy
And keep, for ever glad and gay,
The hounds of thought and care at bay
        That cannot laugh or toy:
These are awaited in some homes,
A faint light from their windows comes.

A cosiness these homes must steep
        In something like a slumber,
And in that surface‑living deep
'Tis hard to know that hearts do keep.
        ......
Yet these are normal; I that sigh
And dread their living - what am I?

Oh joy! oh height of happiness!
        To wish no more than life,
To feel of pleasure, of distress,
A normal more, a normal less,
        By friend or child or wife!
None of these for my soul can be
For more than madness is in me.

I weep sad tears - oh, not to live
        As these in human joy!
Oh, that I could as much believe
As sense and custom joint can give
        Which living cannot cloy!
Man's happiness is poor, I know,
But true - a thing all unlike woe.

Sometimes I dream that I might sit
        By my own fire, and quiet
Might see my wife and children flit
Half in a sleep and not a whit
        In one of dreamy riot;
And I might noble be and pure
In mind, not stupid or obscure.

Sometimes I dream one of these homes
        Secluded socially
One for the many thousand tomes
Of life might keep my heart that roams
        Weak, desolate and free;
That quiet haply might console
My aching heart, my pining soul.

But as the thought of such a glad
        Existence simple here,
As if the thing a venom had
I shiver, tremble and grow sad
        As with a mystic fear;
I dread to think my life might pass
Like that of men, as is and was.

I dread to think of a life sweet
        By family and friends.
Mine eyes the finite that they meet
Abhor - the houses and the street.
        And all things that have ends.
I know not to what I aspire,
Yet know this I cannot desire.

So always incompatible
        And by the usual cold,
I go about, my own deep hell,
Hearing to toll in me the bell
        That tells me I grow old,
Yet this in such an accent strange
lt bears the mystery of Change.

And so - alas! must e'er I be
A stranger everywhere;
The leper in his leprosy
In his exclusion nears not me
        Who cannot living bear:
The world my home, my brother men
Are prisons, chains that bind and pen.

I pass. The windows are behind,
        And I forget their peace,
But tremble yet at what my mind
Conceives and feels; and in the wind
        I wander without cease,
Glad yet sad in me to perceive
Something none other can conceive.
1 560