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Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa

SECOND SIGHT

Whene'er thou dost undo
Thy dark, strange hair before the wind
And the wind takes it up and makes it woo
Tumult and violence in the way it sweeps
Along the air, mingling, unmingling, undefined
In the snake‑like madness it keeps.

Then I do know
That somewhere whence dreams come
And passions go,
Somewhere in that world contrary to this,
Yet landscaped, peopled as this is,
In a great southern sea
There is a storm and a hurled wreck
On rising rocks that cannot reck
For human misery.

The two things are but one.
Thy floating hair is that great ship undone
In a tossed, turbulent, dashed ocean.
Neither precedeth nor doth cause the other
Nor are the two as brother and brother,
But absolutely one, samely the same,
They have somehow an equal name
Where speech is of the essence of what is.

A real sight, like God's, should see the kiss
Of the wind through thy hair and the far storm
One thing, - ­yet two things because we see two
When we conceive them one, the double form
Coming to oneness in what we construe.

Therefore I grieve when thou letst thy hair take
The wind upon its long, thin, changing fingers,
For that sight of me that translates that to
The sterner meaning in what world I know
Only through what in me is not here awake, -
That sight of that mad wreck visibly lingers
And does in my imagination ache.

Alas! all things are linked, and we know not
Half the contents of our each casual thought.
We never see save one little dreamed bit
Of each feeling we have; we pass through it
Like rapid travellers that scarce can see
What they pass by and what they see see erringly.

What is the meaning of my writing this?
Nothing, save that this is,
I know not why, something I know and must
Utter, the purpose of it being with
That secret Being that made my body of dust
Bear my soul's ignored presence, and that breath
Of life that survives my each moment's death.
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Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa

Horror! Não sei ser inconsciente

Horror! Não sei ser inconsciente
E tenho para tudo, do que é bom
À inconsciência, o pensamento aberto,
Tornando-o impossível.

O amor causa-me horror é abandono,
Intimidade, mostrar       (...)       do ser

E eu tenho do alto orgulho a timidez
E sinto horror a abrir o ser a alguém,
A confiar n'alguém. Horror eu sinto
A que prescrute alguém, ou levemente
Ou não, quaisquer recantos do meu ser.
Abandonar-me em braços nus e belos
(Inda que deles o amor viesse)
No conceber de tudo me horroriza;
Seria violar meu ser profundo,
Aproximar-me muito doutros homens;
Uma nudez qualquer — espírito ou corpo (
Confrange-me: acostumei-me cedo
Aos despimentos do meu ser,
A fixar olhos púdicos, conscientes
Demais. Pensar em dizer «amo-te»
E «amo-te» só — só isto me angustia...
Pensar que ao rir (e mesmo que o não seja)
Exponho uma íntima parte de mim,
Para poder amar eu precisava
Esquecer que sou Fausto o pensador.
Eu queria era dormir, dormi, dormir,
Longo dormir, meio sentindo em sono,
E dormir sempre, sem consciência ter
Do tempo, só do sono sonolento
E da vacuidade do meu ser;
Dormir sem vir a morte, nem sonhar
Mas dormir só dormir, sempre dormir.
Que hoje já de dormir desaprendi.
Cansado de pensar, a pensar fico,
E as noites longas, longas, longas, longas,
E o pálido raiar de inda doutro dia...
Inda outro dia que trará ainda
Uma outra noite e essa mais dias, mais...
Insone sentir isto, e o deslizar
Suave e horroroso do tempo.
Cai então sobre mim todo o horror claro
E nítido e visível do mistério,
E eu tal fico em abalo e em comoção
Que durmo — sim que durmo de pesar-me
Tudo de mais p'ra mais poder sentir.
Então durmo... e antes eu não dormisse
Porque desordenadas incoerências
Mas não visões, só abstracções terríveis
(...)
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Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa

SOUL-SYMBOLS

My soul ‑ what is my soul? But symbols mute
Its horror and confusion can give out:
A desert out of space where absolute
Reigns expectation full of horrid doubt.

It gives the sense that giveth, strange and dark,
Some unknown river weird, hauntingly lone,
In some old picture storiless, sole work
Of some great painter horribly unknown.

It is an island out of human track,
Mysterious, old within the sea and full
Of caves and grottoes unexplored and black,
Pregnant with many horrors possible.

It is an olden inn with corridors
Woven in a labyrinth and scarce of light,
Where through the night the sound of shutting doors,
Vague in its cause and place, fills us with fright.

It is a mountain region wild and free,
Precipiced, hid and silent, never seen,
Where we dare not think of what might have been
Nor wish idea of what things may be.

If ever mystery, romance and fear
Have shown their heart on canvas and on scroll,
It must assuredly to men appear
As to mine inner sense appears my soul.

It is a vision-desert full of rocks
Where all than reason is both more and less,
'Tis a lone coast where the sea's endless shocks
Fill with an empty sound its lifelessness.

Something of lost, forgotten, vague and dead,
Yet waking, as a slumberer mystical
Seems to perceive, for who looks knows with dread
That something he doth see to make appal.

All this my soul is in its weak despair,
Full of sense unto pain, of thought to tears,
Having for meed of reason a mute care,
For company to feeling - woes and fears.

So to my glance, as if with opium wide,
My very self is grown a mystery;
In inexstatic fear Life doth abide
And madness like my breath is within me.
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