Emoções e Sentimentos

FAUSTO: (vindo de casa [...])
É isto amor? Só isto! Sinto como
O cérebro oscilante, um gozo
Mas o coração pesado, frio, e mudo.
Sinto ânsias, desejos
Mas não com meu ser todo. Alguma cousa
No íntimo meu, alguma coisa ali,
Fria, pesada, muda permanece.

Para isto deixei eu a vida antiga
Que já bem não concebo, parecendo
Vaga já.
Já não sinto a agonia muda e funda
Mas uma menos funda e dolorosa
Mas mais terrível raiva e (...)
De movimentos íntimos, desejos
Que são como rancores.
Um cansaço violento e desmedido
De existir e sentir-me aqui e um ódio
Nascido disto vago e horroroso
A tudo e todos por não saber
A causa exacta de tudo.

FAUSTO: (vindo de casa [...])
É isto amor? Só isto! Sinto como
O cérebro oscilante, um gozo
Mas o coração pesado, frio, e mudo.
Sinto ânsias, desejos
Mas não com meu ser todo. Alguma cousa
No íntimo meu, alguma coisa ali,
Fria, pesada, muda permanece.

Para isto deixei eu a vida antiga
Que já bem não concebo, parecendo
Vaga já.
Já não sinto a agonia muda e funda
Mas uma menos funda e dolorosa
Mas mais terrível raiva e (...)
De movimentos íntimos, desejos
Que são como rancores.
Um cansaço violento e desmedido
De existir e sentir-me aqui e um ódio
Nascido disto vago e horroroso
A tudo e todos por não saber
A causa exacta de tudo.

FAUSTO: (vindo de casa [...])
É isto amor? Só isto! Sinto como
O cérebro oscilante, um gozo
Mas o coração pesado, frio, e mudo.
Sinto ânsias, desejos
Mas não com meu ser todo. Alguma cousa
No íntimo meu, alguma coisa ali,
Fria, pesada, muda permanece.

Para isto deixei eu a vida antiga
Que já bem não concebo, parecendo
Vaga já.
Já não sinto a agonia muda e funda
Mas uma menos funda e dolorosa
Mas mais terrível raiva e (...)
De movimentos íntimos, desejos
Que são como rancores.
Um cansaço violento e desmedido
De existir e sentir-me aqui e um ódio
Nascido disto vago e horroroso
A tudo e todos por não saber
A causa exacta de tudo.

Choro como a criança a quem falta a lua perto,
Como o amante abandonado pela que não tem ainda,
Com o livro inexplícito do seu Reino por vir,
O que se julga em vão Motor,
Eixo do movimento dos espíritos,
Fulcro das ambições sombrias,
Auge dinâmico das tropas da ascensão,
Ou, mais claro e mais rápido,
ProtopIasma do mundo matemático do futuro!

Quem sou eu, afinal, por que te saúdo?
Quem com nome e língua e sem voz?

A labuta prostituta do [caldeamento?] de (...)
Nos altos fornos de mim!

Minha oração-cavalgada!

Minha saudação-arranco!

Quem como tu sentiu a vida individual de tudo?
Quem como tu esgotou sentir-se — a vida — sentir-nos?
Quem como tu tem sempre o sobresselente por próprio
E transborda por norma da norma — forma da Vida?
(...)

a minha alegria é uma raiva,
o meu arranco um choque
        (Pá!)
em mim...

Saúdo-te em ti ó Mestre da minha doença de saúde,
o primeiro doente perfeito da universalite que tenho
o caso-nome do “mal de Whitman” que há dentro de mim!
St. Walt dos Delírios Ruidosos e a Raiva!

(...) e alucinadas pré-sensações
Impelem-me, desvairam-me, ocupam
Tumultuariamente e ardentemente
O doloroso vácuo do meu ser.
Incapaz de pensar, apenas sinto
Um atropelamento do sentir
E confusões confusas, explosão
De tendências, desejos, ânsias, sonhos
Desatenuadamente dolorosos.

(...) e alucinadas pré-sensações
Impelem-me, desvairam-me, ocupam
Tumultuariamente e ardentemente
O doloroso vácuo do meu ser.
Incapaz de pensar, apenas sinto
Um atropelamento do sentir
E confusões confusas, explosão
De tendências, desejos, ânsias, sonhos
Desatenuadamente dolorosos.

Horror! Conhecer intimamente
O transcendente horror dum corpo humano!
Sentir o mistério doutra vida
Tão intimamente perto... quase nosso
E como que carnalizar em hórrida
Intranscendência o mistério em si.

Horror! Conhecer intimamente
O transcendente horror dum corpo humano!
Sentir o mistério doutra vida
Tão intimamente perto... quase nosso
E como que carnalizar em hórrida
Intranscendência o mistério em si.

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.

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.

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.

Eis-me enfim só, oh desejado horror
Eis-me enfim ante ti, oh Universo!
Eis-me aqui, lama e (...) mistério,
Excluído de ti, o eterno expulso
Que não pedia a vida. Eis-me aqui.

Pudesse eu pôr no seu desmedimento
O ódio (...)       e afrontar-vos
Com a expressão desse ódio, oh silêncios,
Oh noites ao pensar! eu morreria
De haver interpretado em tanto horror
Um mor horror que interpretar não pode
O que há-de ser palavra ou pensamento.
Eis-me aqui, oh abismo explicado!
Eis-me aqui o maior dos seres todos,
Quebrando aos pés do pensamento forte
A cruz de Cristo e as fórmulas mortais
[...]
Eis-me aqui!
O que há para mim senão vacuidade
No mundo (...), o que me destinastes?
O vazio? O silêncio? A escuridão?
Desses-me o instinto deles, não a plena
Torturação da luz.

Eis-me enfim só, oh desejado horror
Eis-me enfim ante ti, oh Universo!
Eis-me aqui, lama e (...) mistério,
Excluído de ti, o eterno expulso
Que não pedia a vida. Eis-me aqui.

Pudesse eu pôr no seu desmedimento
O ódio (...)       e afrontar-vos
Com a expressão desse ódio, oh silêncios,
Oh noites ao pensar! eu morreria
De haver interpretado em tanto horror
Um mor horror que interpretar não pode
O que há-de ser palavra ou pensamento.
Eis-me aqui, oh abismo explicado!
Eis-me aqui o maior dos seres todos,
Quebrando aos pés do pensamento forte
A cruz de Cristo e as fórmulas mortais
[...]
Eis-me aqui!
O que há para mim senão vacuidade
No mundo (...), o que me destinastes?
O vazio? O silêncio? A escuridão?
Desses-me o instinto deles, não a plena
Torturação da luz.

Quase anónima sorris
E o sol doura o teu cabelo.
Porque é que, pra ser feliz,
É preciso não sabê-lo?

(after running away. (He never loves))

Não sei viver! nem fui para viver
Destinado; porquê então a vaga
Aspiração que tenho?

(after running away. (He never loves))

Não sei viver! nem fui para viver
Destinado; porquê então a vaga
Aspiração que tenho?

Joyless seeing me to be
Mother Nature asked of me:
        «What desirest thou?
Whence comes this thy misery?
Whence the sadness on thy brow?
        Tell me what thy wish is.»

- «To give it thou art powerless.
Something lovelier than love,
Bluer than the sky above,
Truer than the truth we have
Something better than the grave,
Aught that in the soul has root,
Something that no mistress' kiss
Nor mother's love can substitute.
But I, dreaming, do pollute
With my dream its object's day.»

In the silence absolute
Of my soul I hear it say:

´'Love can make me but to weep,
        Glory maketh me but pine.
        Give the world with my keep,
        And still nothing will be mine.'»

- «But what feelest thou in thee?»

- «Hope and misery the first,
Then despair and misery.

´Oh, it is a desire, a thirst
The limits of my soul to burst,
To spring outside my consciousness,
        I know not how nor why;
A wish with moonlight wings to fly
Past the high walls of distress.
Lifting my most daring flight
Up, far up, beyond all night,
More than eagles fly in air
Would I in that atmosphere.

«Something more near to me in space
        Than my body is. In fine
Something than myself more mine.
Something (in what words to trace
Its nature?) nearer in its bliss
To me than my own consciousness.
The Something I desire is this.
It is further than far away
And yet (its nature how to find?)
        Closer to me than my mind,
        Nearer to me than to-day.»

Joyless seeing me to be
Mother Nature asked of me:
        «What desirest thou?
Whence comes this thy misery?
Whence the sadness on thy brow?
        Tell me what thy wish is.»

- «To give it thou art powerless.
Something lovelier than love,
Bluer than the sky above,
Truer than the truth we have
Something better than the grave,
Aught that in the soul has root,
Something that no mistress' kiss
Nor mother's love can substitute.
But I, dreaming, do pollute
With my dream its object's day.»

In the silence absolute
Of my soul I hear it say:

´'Love can make me but to weep,
        Glory maketh me but pine.
        Give the world with my keep,
        And still nothing will be mine.'»

- «But what feelest thou in thee?»

- «Hope and misery the first,
Then despair and misery.

´Oh, it is a desire, a thirst
The limits of my soul to burst,
To spring outside my consciousness,
        I know not how nor why;
A wish with moonlight wings to fly
Past the high walls of distress.
Lifting my most daring flight
Up, far up, beyond all night,
More than eagles fly in air
Would I in that atmosphere.

«Something more near to me in space
        Than my body is. In fine
Something than myself more mine.
Something (in what words to trace
Its nature?) nearer in its bliss
To me than my own consciousness.
The Something I desire is this.
It is further than far away
And yet (its nature how to find?)
        Closer to me than my mind,
        Nearer to me than to-day.»

Joyless seeing me to be
Mother Nature asked of me:
        «What desirest thou?
Whence comes this thy misery?
Whence the sadness on thy brow?
        Tell me what thy wish is.»

- «To give it thou art powerless.
Something lovelier than love,
Bluer than the sky above,
Truer than the truth we have
Something better than the grave,
Aught that in the soul has root,
Something that no mistress' kiss
Nor mother's love can substitute.
But I, dreaming, do pollute
With my dream its object's day.»

In the silence absolute
Of my soul I hear it say:

´'Love can make me but to weep,
        Glory maketh me but pine.
        Give the world with my keep,
        And still nothing will be mine.'»

- «But what feelest thou in thee?»

- «Hope and misery the first,
Then despair and misery.

´Oh, it is a desire, a thirst
The limits of my soul to burst,
To spring outside my consciousness,
        I know not how nor why;
A wish with moonlight wings to fly
Past the high walls of distress.
Lifting my most daring flight
Up, far up, beyond all night,
More than eagles fly in air
Would I in that atmosphere.

«Something more near to me in space
        Than my body is. In fine
Something than myself more mine.
Something (in what words to trace
Its nature?) nearer in its bliss
To me than my own consciousness.
The Something I desire is this.
It is further than far away
And yet (its nature how to find?)
        Closer to me than my mind,
        Nearer to me than to-day.»

Joyless seeing me to be
Mother Nature asked of me:
        «What desirest thou?
Whence comes this thy misery?
Whence the sadness on thy brow?
        Tell me what thy wish is.»

- «To give it thou art powerless.
Something lovelier than love,
Bluer than the sky above,
Truer than the truth we have
Something better than the grave,
Aught that in the soul has root,
Something that no mistress' kiss
Nor mother's love can substitute.
But I, dreaming, do pollute
With my dream its object's day.»

In the silence absolute
Of my soul I hear it say:

´'Love can make me but to weep,
        Glory maketh me but pine.
        Give the world with my keep,
        And still nothing will be mine.'»

- «But what feelest thou in thee?»

- «Hope and misery the first,
Then despair and misery.

´Oh, it is a desire, a thirst
The limits of my soul to burst,
To spring outside my consciousness,
        I know not how nor why;
A wish with moonlight wings to fly
Past the high walls of distress.
Lifting my most daring flight
Up, far up, beyond all night,
More than eagles fly in air
Would I in that atmosphere.

«Something more near to me in space
        Than my body is. In fine
Something than myself more mine.
Something (in what words to trace
Its nature?) nearer in its bliss
To me than my own consciousness.
The Something I desire is this.
It is further than far away
And yet (its nature how to find?)
        Closer to me than my mind,
        Nearer to me than to-day.»

Sonhos dentro de sonhos,
Involuções do sonhar,
Os pensamentos são medonhos
Quando se querem aprofundar;
E os corações ficam tristonhos, tristonhos
Quando se sentem sentir pensar.

ilusões dentro d'ilusões
Atormentando o descrer;
Descrenças e crenças são ambas visões
São ambas sonhar, são ambas crer.

Sonhos dentro de sonhos,
Involuções do sonhar,
Os pensamentos são medonhos
Quando se querem aprofundar;
E os corações ficam tristonhos, tristonhos
Quando se sentem sentir pensar.

ilusões dentro d'ilusões
Atormentando o descrer;
Descrenças e crenças são ambas visões
São ambas sonhar, são ambas crer.

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.