Day: October 18, 2019

Fernando Pessoa – I always live in the present (from The Book of Disquiet)

Philippe de Champaigne, Triple portrait of Cardinal de Richelieu, c. 1642 I always live in the present. I don’t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of everything, the latter as the reality of nothing. Vivo sempre nel presente. Non conosco il futuro. Non ho più …

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Fernando Pessoa – They say: They forget.

Jacques-Louis David,Cupid and Psyche, 1817 They say:  They forget.  They don’t say:  They said.  They do:   It’s done.  They don’t do:  It’s the same. Why waiting? Everything is  dreaming. Dicono? Dimenticano. Non dicono? Hanno detto. Fanno? È fatale. Non fanno? È uguale. Perché aspettare? Tutto è sognare. Do you know a different English translation? …

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Fernando Pessoa – Poem in a Straight Line/ Poema in linea retta

Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Sebastian Junyer Vidal, 1903 I never knew a soul who ever took a licking. My friends have all been champions at everything. And I, so often vulgar, so often obscene, so often vile, I, so deliberately parasitical, Unforgivably filthy, I, so often without patience to take a bath, I, who’ve been …

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