Clouds
Fernando Pessoa
The poet is a pretender
Two hundred
quotations chosen by Antonio Tabucchi .
(Translated by Tabucchi).
Feltrinelli - 1988
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In nine years I open the book, I gather from my notes and underlining that I liked a lot or otherwise in any case had given me plenty to think about! And I discover that I had even finished reading the Amsterdam airport (what was I doing? Do not remember.)
Citing some Quote:
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2 - Being a poet is not my ambition.
It 's my way of be alone.
33 - [...] I carry the scars of all the battles that I avoided. My body is aching with the effort that I have not even thought of doing.
34 - Life is a journey experimental fact involuntarily.
52 - [...] Man is not an animal is a meat clever [...].
58 - [...] I finally I had stayed I was able to slowly raise my exhausted body out of bed for anything in which I had thought about the universe.
59 - [...] Look, therefore, facing the bridge, passing the truth, and that I will restore and no fake, intelligent and natural.
-61 Just as we wash our body we should wash your fate, change life as we change underwear [...].
66 - Slaves of cardiac star
have conquered the world before you get out of bed,
but we wake up and it is opaque,
we got up and they have nothing, [...].
85 - Everything in its time has run its course.
86 - Only the illusion of freedom
freedom exists.
87 - [...] I articulated in periods and paragraphs, punctuation, and I become [...] me up like lunatics with dried flowers that are fresh only in my dreams.
89 - [...] my pretending to be ugly face of life itself.
103 -
The reality is always more or less
of what we want.
111 - Delicate as stem poppy
supports me now. Nothing I want.
115 - Be All in all things. Ask what the minimum six
you do.
122 - From my village I see the earth as you can see
Universe.
127 - Clouds ... [...] exist without my knowing it and die without my knowing. Are the interval between what is and what is not, between what's dream to be and how life has made me be the average between abstract and carnal things that are not nothing, nothing more than myself. Clouds ... [...]
130 - without the madness of what man
beast if not satisfied, deferred
corpse that procreate?
137 - A tired, violent and disproportionate
to exist ...
141 - Being the same thing in every possible way
at the same time.
161 - I do not care about the rhymes. Rarely
there are two trees equal, side by side.
166 - [...] the work of art is an invention with an absolute value.
192 - always live in the present. I do not know the future. I have not the past. The one I like the ability to weigh all the other as the reality of anything.
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