“This worship of Humanity, with its rituals of Liberty and Equality, always struck me as like being a revival of the ancient cults, in which animals were gods or the gods bore the heads of animals.”
Pessoa“Children are particularly literary, for they say what they feel not what someone has taught them to feel.”
Fernando Pessoa“All letters of love are Ridiculous. They wouldn’t be love letters if they were not Ridiculous.”
Fernando Pessoa“A bitter awareness that everything is a sensation of mine and at the same time something external, something not in my power to change. Ah, how often my own dreams have raised up before me as things, not to replace reality but to declare themselves its equal”
Pessoa“This worship of Humanity, with its rituals of Liberty and Equality, always struck me as like being a revival of the ancient cults, in which animals were gods or the gods bore the heads of animals.”
Pessoa“Without madness what is manBut a wholesome beast,Postponed corpse that begets?”
Fernando Pessoa, Poems of Fernando Pessoa“Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice”
Fernando Pessoa, Poems of Fernando Pessoa“Again I see you, But me I don't see!, The magical mirror in which I saw myself has been broken, And only a piece of me I see in each fatal fragment - Only a piece of you and me!...”
Fernando Pessoa, Poems of Fernando Pessoa“Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!”
Fernando Pessoa, Poems of Fernando Pessoa“To be great, be whole;Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you.Be whole in everything. Put all you areInto the smallest thing you do.So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendorBecause it blooms up above.”
Fernando Pessoa, Poems of Fernando Pessoa“If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.”
Fernando Pessoa, Poems of Fernando Pessoa