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Fernando Pessoa
PASSAGEM DAS HORAS OU WALT WHITMAN
PASSAGEM DAS HORAS OU WALT WHITMAN
Eu, o ritmista febril
Para quem o parágrafo de versos é uma pessoa inteira,
Para quem, por baixo da metáfora aparente,
Como em estrofe, anti-estrofe, epodo o poema que escrevo,
Que por detrás do delírio construo
Que por detrás de sentir penso
Que amo, expludo, rujo, com ordem e oculta medida,
Eu ante ti quereria ter menos de engenheiro na alma,
Menos de grego das máquinas, de Bacante de Apolo
Nos meus momentos de alma multiplicados em verso.
Mas o ar do mar alto
Chega, por um influxo de dentro do meu sangue
Ao meu cérebro desterrado em terra,
E a fúria com que medito, a raiva com que me domino
Abre-se como uma vela, tomada de vento, aos ares
Ampla servidão ao rasgo de assombro dos (...)
Eu, o ritmista febril
Para quem o parágrafo de versos é uma pessoa inteira,
Para quem, por baixo da metáfora aparente,
Como em estrofe, anti-estrofe, epodo o poema que escrevo,
Que por detrás do delírio construo
Que por detrás de sentir penso
Que amo, expludo, rujo, com ordem e oculta medida,
Eu ante ti quereria ter menos de engenheiro na alma,
Menos de grego das máquinas, de Bacante de Apolo
Nos meus momentos de alma multiplicados em verso.
Mas o ar do mar alto
Chega, por um influxo de dentro do meu sangue
Ao meu cérebro desterrado em terra,
E a fúria com que medito, a raiva com que me domino
Abre-se como uma vela, tomada de vento, aos ares
Ampla servidão ao rasgo de assombro dos (...)
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Fernando Pessoa
PASSAGEM DAS HORAS OU WALT WHITMAN
PASSAGEM DAS HORAS OU WALT WHITMAN
Eu, o ritmista febril
Para quem o parágrafo de versos é uma pessoa inteira,
Para quem, por baixo da metáfora aparente,
Como em estrofe, anti-estrofe, epodo o poema que escrevo,
Que por detrás do delírio construo
Que por detrás de sentir penso
Que amo, expludo, rujo, com ordem e oculta medida,
Eu ante ti quereria ter menos de engenheiro na alma,
Menos de grego das máquinas, de Bacante de Apolo
Nos meus momentos de alma multiplicados em verso.
Mas o ar do mar alto
Chega, por um influxo de dentro do meu sangue
Ao meu cérebro desterrado em terra,
E a fúria com que medito, a raiva com que me domino
Abre-se como uma vela, tomada de vento, aos ares
Ampla servidão ao rasgo de assombro dos (...)
Eu, o ritmista febril
Para quem o parágrafo de versos é uma pessoa inteira,
Para quem, por baixo da metáfora aparente,
Como em estrofe, anti-estrofe, epodo o poema que escrevo,
Que por detrás do delírio construo
Que por detrás de sentir penso
Que amo, expludo, rujo, com ordem e oculta medida,
Eu ante ti quereria ter menos de engenheiro na alma,
Menos de grego das máquinas, de Bacante de Apolo
Nos meus momentos de alma multiplicados em verso.
Mas o ar do mar alto
Chega, por um influxo de dentro do meu sangue
Ao meu cérebro desterrado em terra,
E a fúria com que medito, a raiva com que me domino
Abre-se como uma vela, tomada de vento, aos ares
Ampla servidão ao rasgo de assombro dos (...)
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Fernando Pessoa
PASSAGEM DAS HORAS OU WALT WHITMAN
PASSAGEM DAS HORAS OU WALT WHITMAN
Eu, o ritmista febril
Para quem o parágrafo de versos é uma pessoa inteira,
Para quem, por baixo da metáfora aparente,
Como em estrofe, anti-estrofe, epodo o poema que escrevo,
Que por detrás do delírio construo
Que por detrás de sentir penso
Que amo, expludo, rujo, com ordem e oculta medida,
Eu ante ti quereria ter menos de engenheiro na alma,
Menos de grego das máquinas, de Bacante de Apolo
Nos meus momentos de alma multiplicados em verso.
Mas o ar do mar alto
Chega, por um influxo de dentro do meu sangue
Ao meu cérebro desterrado em terra,
E a fúria com que medito, a raiva com que me domino
Abre-se como uma vela, tomada de vento, aos ares
Ampla servidão ao rasgo de assombro dos (...)
Eu, o ritmista febril
Para quem o parágrafo de versos é uma pessoa inteira,
Para quem, por baixo da metáfora aparente,
Como em estrofe, anti-estrofe, epodo o poema que escrevo,
Que por detrás do delírio construo
Que por detrás de sentir penso
Que amo, expludo, rujo, com ordem e oculta medida,
Eu ante ti quereria ter menos de engenheiro na alma,
Menos de grego das máquinas, de Bacante de Apolo
Nos meus momentos de alma multiplicados em verso.
Mas o ar do mar alto
Chega, por um influxo de dentro do meu sangue
Ao meu cérebro desterrado em terra,
E a fúria com que medito, a raiva com que me domino
Abre-se como uma vela, tomada de vento, aos ares
Ampla servidão ao rasgo de assombro dos (...)
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Fernando Pessoa
Dá-me um sorriso daqueles
Dá-me um sorriso daqueles
Que te não servem de nada
Como se dá às crianças
Uma caixa esvaziada.
Que te não servem de nada
Como se dá às crianças
Uma caixa esvaziada.
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Fernando Pessoa
I have outwatched the Lesser Wain, and seen
I have outwatched the Lesser Wain, and seen
The remnant stars grow pale; but the used night
Has to the thought that used it sterile been,
Nor lost that use by pressure of delight.
My fixed, impatient thought no reason read;
What I scarce read my unthought thought made stray;
My soul between the living and the dead
Was a blown vapour, without place or way.
What the morn brought or took I cannot tell,
That had no use to bring or use to find.
All night I lay under the barren spell.
The day cannot dispel what the void wind
Ruinous built in the shorn night: its glow
Can but the night's made desert brightly show.
The remnant stars grow pale; but the used night
Has to the thought that used it sterile been,
Nor lost that use by pressure of delight.
My fixed, impatient thought no reason read;
What I scarce read my unthought thought made stray;
My soul between the living and the dead
Was a blown vapour, without place or way.
What the morn brought or took I cannot tell,
That had no use to bring or use to find.
All night I lay under the barren spell.
The day cannot dispel what the void wind
Ruinous built in the shorn night: its glow
Can but the night's made desert brightly show.
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Fernando Pessoa
Trazes uma cruz no peito.
Trazes uma cruz no peito.
Não sei se é por devoção.
Antes tivesse o jeito
De ter lá um coração.
Não sei se é por devoção.
Antes tivesse o jeito
De ter lá um coração.
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Fernando Pessoa
Do not think of me. Love me.
Do not think of me. Love me.
That shall somehow suffice.
……
……
Let us be purposeless
Sedately and for a task.
We can be nothing this
Dashes not with the mask
Of being anything...
Be we eer on the wing...
And towards nowhere flying,
Maybe we shall obtain
A thought of what our dying
May steal from life and pain...
That shall somehow suffice.
……
……
Let us be purposeless
Sedately and for a task.
We can be nothing this
Dashes not with the mask
Of being anything...
Be we eer on the wing...
And towards nowhere flying,
Maybe we shall obtain
A thought of what our dying
May steal from life and pain...
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Fernando Pessoa
D. T.
The other day indeed,
With my shoe, on the wall,
I killed a centipede
Which was not there at all.
How can that be?
It's very simple, you see -
Just the beginning of D. T.
When the pink alligator
And the tiger without a head
Begin to take stature
And demanded to be fed,
As I have no shoes
Fit to kill those,
I think I'll start thinking:
Should I stop drinking?
But it really doesn't matter...
Am I thinner or fatter
Because this is this?
Would I be wiser or better
If life were other than this is?
No, nothing is right.
Your love might
Make me better than I
Can be or can try.
But we never know
Darling, I don't know
If the sugar of your heart
Would not turn out candy...
So I let my heart smart
And I drink brandy.
Then the centipede come
Without trouble.
I can see them well.
Or even double.
I'll see them home
With my shoe,
And, when they all go to hell,
I'll go too.
Then, on a whole,
I shall be happy indeed,
Because, with a shoe
Real and true,
I shall kill the true centipede -
My lost soul!...
With my shoe, on the wall,
I killed a centipede
Which was not there at all.
How can that be?
It's very simple, you see -
Just the beginning of D. T.
When the pink alligator
And the tiger without a head
Begin to take stature
And demanded to be fed,
As I have no shoes
Fit to kill those,
I think I'll start thinking:
Should I stop drinking?
But it really doesn't matter...
Am I thinner or fatter
Because this is this?
Would I be wiser or better
If life were other than this is?
No, nothing is right.
Your love might
Make me better than I
Can be or can try.
But we never know
Darling, I don't know
If the sugar of your heart
Would not turn out candy...
So I let my heart smart
And I drink brandy.
Then the centipede come
Without trouble.
I can see them well.
Or even double.
I'll see them home
With my shoe,
And, when they all go to hell,
I'll go too.
Then, on a whole,
I shall be happy indeed,
Because, with a shoe
Real and true,
I shall kill the true centipede -
My lost soul!...
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Fernando Pessoa
Even as great Macchiavel, shut fast from all,
Even as great Macchiavel, shut fast from all,
His court dress donned to visit his invention,
So I, when the commanding Muse doth call,
Give to the wide world sleep and inattention.
I close the door to all the man in me,
To friend, relation, countryman and self,
Closeting myself with eternity
And both the good and ill of me do shelf.
I strive to please Athena, not mankind.
No time shall call me out, or place seduce,
Nor ache to please, nor fear to offend me blind
To the great passion for true beauty's use.
Mine own self I displease, if it so fit
The claiming tyranny and press of wit.
His court dress donned to visit his invention,
So I, when the commanding Muse doth call,
Give to the wide world sleep and inattention.
I close the door to all the man in me,
To friend, relation, countryman and self,
Closeting myself with eternity
And both the good and ill of me do shelf.
I strive to please Athena, not mankind.
No time shall call me out, or place seduce,
Nor ache to please, nor fear to offend me blind
To the great passion for true beauty's use.
Mine own self I displease, if it so fit
The claiming tyranny and press of wit.
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Fernando Pessoa
Even as great Macchiavel, shut fast from all,
Even as great Macchiavel, shut fast from all,
His court dress donned to visit his invention,
So I, when the commanding Muse doth call,
Give to the wide world sleep and inattention.
I close the door to all the man in me,
To friend, relation, countryman and self,
Closeting myself with eternity
And both the good and ill of me do shelf.
I strive to please Athena, not mankind.
No time shall call me out, or place seduce,
Nor ache to please, nor fear to offend me blind
To the great passion for true beauty's use.
Mine own self I displease, if it so fit
The claiming tyranny and press of wit.
His court dress donned to visit his invention,
So I, when the commanding Muse doth call,
Give to the wide world sleep and inattention.
I close the door to all the man in me,
To friend, relation, countryman and self,
Closeting myself with eternity
And both the good and ill of me do shelf.
I strive to please Athena, not mankind.
No time shall call me out, or place seduce,
Nor ache to please, nor fear to offend me blind
To the great passion for true beauty's use.
Mine own self I displease, if it so fit
The claiming tyranny and press of wit.
1 407
Fernando Pessoa
Even as great Macchiavel, shut fast from all,
Even as great Macchiavel, shut fast from all,
His court dress donned to visit his invention,
So I, when the commanding Muse doth call,
Give to the wide world sleep and inattention.
I close the door to all the man in me,
To friend, relation, countryman and self,
Closeting myself with eternity
And both the good and ill of me do shelf.
I strive to please Athena, not mankind.
No time shall call me out, or place seduce,
Nor ache to please, nor fear to offend me blind
To the great passion for true beauty's use.
Mine own self I displease, if it so fit
The claiming tyranny and press of wit.
His court dress donned to visit his invention,
So I, when the commanding Muse doth call,
Give to the wide world sleep and inattention.
I close the door to all the man in me,
To friend, relation, countryman and self,
Closeting myself with eternity
And both the good and ill of me do shelf.
I strive to please Athena, not mankind.
No time shall call me out, or place seduce,
Nor ache to please, nor fear to offend me blind
To the great passion for true beauty's use.
Mine own self I displease, if it so fit
The claiming tyranny and press of wit.
1 407
Fernando Pessoa
Even as great Macchiavel, shut fast from all,
Even as great Macchiavel, shut fast from all,
His court dress donned to visit his invention,
So I, when the commanding Muse doth call,
Give to the wide world sleep and inattention.
I close the door to all the man in me,
To friend, relation, countryman and self,
Closeting myself with eternity
And both the good and ill of me do shelf.
I strive to please Athena, not mankind.
No time shall call me out, or place seduce,
Nor ache to please, nor fear to offend me blind
To the great passion for true beauty's use.
Mine own self I displease, if it so fit
The claiming tyranny and press of wit.
His court dress donned to visit his invention,
So I, when the commanding Muse doth call,
Give to the wide world sleep and inattention.
I close the door to all the man in me,
To friend, relation, countryman and self,
Closeting myself with eternity
And both the good and ill of me do shelf.
I strive to please Athena, not mankind.
No time shall call me out, or place seduce,
Nor ache to please, nor fear to offend me blind
To the great passion for true beauty's use.
Mine own self I displease, if it so fit
The claiming tyranny and press of wit.
1 407
Fernando Pessoa
Even as great Macchiavel, shut fast from all,
Even as great Macchiavel, shut fast from all,
His court dress donned to visit his invention,
So I, when the commanding Muse doth call,
Give to the wide world sleep and inattention.
I close the door to all the man in me,
To friend, relation, countryman and self,
Closeting myself with eternity
And both the good and ill of me do shelf.
I strive to please Athena, not mankind.
No time shall call me out, or place seduce,
Nor ache to please, nor fear to offend me blind
To the great passion for true beauty's use.
Mine own self I displease, if it so fit
The claiming tyranny and press of wit.
His court dress donned to visit his invention,
So I, when the commanding Muse doth call,
Give to the wide world sleep and inattention.
I close the door to all the man in me,
To friend, relation, countryman and self,
Closeting myself with eternity
And both the good and ill of me do shelf.
I strive to please Athena, not mankind.
No time shall call me out, or place seduce,
Nor ache to please, nor fear to offend me blind
To the great passion for true beauty's use.
Mine own self I displease, if it so fit
The claiming tyranny and press of wit.
1 407
Fernando Pessoa
Occasion cannot make me weak or strong
Occasion cannot make me weak or strong
For mine own soul the true occasion is,
Nor shall I measure fact more short or long
Except the soul's rod space exceed or miss.
Like a revolving many‑coloured sphere
My soul turns to the event one casual side,
And shows to it what was already there;
Its hue with the turned hue the effect decide.
So, various by position, not by shape,
Outward in truth but by its motion’s seeing,
The produced act cannot foreseeing escape
Save it take colour of act for shape of being.
I am the same; change cannot change me for
More than mine own illusion of what is more.
For mine own soul the true occasion is,
Nor shall I measure fact more short or long
Except the soul's rod space exceed or miss.
Like a revolving many‑coloured sphere
My soul turns to the event one casual side,
And shows to it what was already there;
Its hue with the turned hue the effect decide.
So, various by position, not by shape,
Outward in truth but by its motion’s seeing,
The produced act cannot foreseeing escape
Save it take colour of act for shape of being.
I am the same; change cannot change me for
More than mine own illusion of what is more.
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Fernando Pessoa
Occasion cannot make me weak or strong
Occasion cannot make me weak or strong
For mine own soul the true occasion is,
Nor shall I measure fact more short or long
Except the soul's rod space exceed or miss.
Like a revolving many‑coloured sphere
My soul turns to the event one casual side,
And shows to it what was already there;
Its hue with the turned hue the effect decide.
So, various by position, not by shape,
Outward in truth but by its motion’s seeing,
The produced act cannot foreseeing escape
Save it take colour of act for shape of being.
I am the same; change cannot change me for
More than mine own illusion of what is more.
For mine own soul the true occasion is,
Nor shall I measure fact more short or long
Except the soul's rod space exceed or miss.
Like a revolving many‑coloured sphere
My soul turns to the event one casual side,
And shows to it what was already there;
Its hue with the turned hue the effect decide.
So, various by position, not by shape,
Outward in truth but by its motion’s seeing,
The produced act cannot foreseeing escape
Save it take colour of act for shape of being.
I am the same; change cannot change me for
More than mine own illusion of what is more.
850
Fernando Pessoa
O abismo é o muro que tenho
O abismo é o muro que tenho
Ser eu não tem um tamanho.
Ser eu não tem um tamanho.
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Fernando Pessoa
Meu coração, mistério batido pelas lonas dos ventos...
Meu coração, mistério batido pelas lonas dos ventos...
Bandeira a estralejar desfraldadamente ao alto,
Árvore misturada, curvada, sacudida pelo vendaval,
Agitada como uma espuma verde pegada a si mesma,
(...)
Para sempre condenada à raiz de não se poder exprimir!
Queria gritar alto com uma voz que dissesse!
Queria levar ao menos a um outro coração a consciência do meu!
Queria ser lá fora...
Mas o que Sou? O trapo que foi bandeira,
As folhas varridas para o canto que foram ramos,
As palavras socialmente desentendidas, até por quem as aprecia,
Eu que quis fora a minha alma inteira,
E ficou só a chapéu do mendigo debaixo do automóvel,
Estragado estragado,
E o riso dos rápidos Soou para trás na estrada dos felizes...
Bandeira a estralejar desfraldadamente ao alto,
Árvore misturada, curvada, sacudida pelo vendaval,
Agitada como uma espuma verde pegada a si mesma,
(...)
Para sempre condenada à raiz de não se poder exprimir!
Queria gritar alto com uma voz que dissesse!
Queria levar ao menos a um outro coração a consciência do meu!
Queria ser lá fora...
Mas o que Sou? O trapo que foi bandeira,
As folhas varridas para o canto que foram ramos,
As palavras socialmente desentendidas, até por quem as aprecia,
Eu que quis fora a minha alma inteira,
E ficou só a chapéu do mendigo debaixo do automóvel,
Estragado estragado,
E o riso dos rápidos Soou para trás na estrada dos felizes...
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Fernando Pessoa
Todos lá vão para a festa
Todos lá vão para a festa
Com um grande azul de céu.
Nada resta, nada resta...
Resta sim, que resta eu.
Com um grande azul de céu.
Nada resta, nada resta...
Resta sim, que resta eu.
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Fernando Pessoa
Floriu a roseira toda
Floriu a roseira toda
Com as rosas de trepar...
Tua cabeça anda à roda
Mas sabes-te equilibrar.
Com as rosas de trepar...
Tua cabeça anda à roda
Mas sabes-te equilibrar.
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Fernando Pessoa
O guardanapo dobrado
O guardanapo dobrado
Quer dizer que se não volta.
Tenho o coração atado:
Vê se a tua mão mo solta.
Quer dizer que se não volta.
Tenho o coração atado:
Vê se a tua mão mo solta.
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Fernando Pessoa
Andei sozinho na praia
Andei sozinho na praia
Andei na praia a pensar
No jeito da tua saia
Quando lá estiveste a andar.
Andei na praia a pensar
No jeito da tua saia
Quando lá estiveste a andar.
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Fernando Pessoa
Não ter deveres, nem horas certas, nem realidades...
Não ter deveres, nem horas certas, nem realidades...
Ser uma ave humana
Que passe haleyonica sobre a intransigência do mundo —
Ganhando o pão da sua noite com o suor da fronte dos outros —
Faz-tudo triste
No coliseu com lágrimas,
E compère antigo, um pouco mais cheio que Vénus de Milo,
Na insubsistência dos acasos.
E um pouco de sol, ao menos, para os sonhos onde não vivo.
Ser uma ave humana
Que passe haleyonica sobre a intransigência do mundo —
Ganhando o pão da sua noite com o suor da fronte dos outros —
Faz-tudo triste
No coliseu com lágrimas,
E compère antigo, um pouco mais cheio que Vénus de Milo,
Na insubsistência dos acasos.
E um pouco de sol, ao menos, para os sonhos onde não vivo.
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Fernando Pessoa
The sky is a great turquoise shining glee
The sky is a great turquoise shining glee,
All the earth is gathered up in the blue sea
Ev'n the green fields tend thereto in their joy,
The whole day playeth like a happy boy
Among the dales the hours build with their glee.
How happy, had I no cares, would I be!
But there is too much sorrow in mere seeing
The feminine disease of consciousness
Eats like a worm into the source of being.
The very thought I live gives me distress.
My heart is felt by me like some heavy place.
All the earth is gathered up in the blue sea
Ev'n the green fields tend thereto in their joy,
The whole day playeth like a happy boy
Among the dales the hours build with their glee.
How happy, had I no cares, would I be!
But there is too much sorrow in mere seeing
The feminine disease of consciousness
Eats like a worm into the source of being.
The very thought I live gives me distress.
My heart is felt by me like some heavy place.
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