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12163825 No.12163825 [Reply] [Original]

what do we think?

>> No.12163831

Pessoa was the greatest literary writer of the 20th century and people still haven't caught up to this undeniable fact because of universal bad taste in the universities.

>> No.12163838

the most profound poet of the 20th century

>> No.12163903

it slaps

>> No.12163933

>>12163825
love him

>> No.12163939

>>12163825
>we

the hive mind speaketh...

it is good

>> No.12163988

I thank the Portuguese anons for memeing /lit/ into reading Pessoa

>> No.12163996

>>12163988
Read him in Portuguese.

>> No.12164003
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12164003

Is this any good?

>> No.12164018

>>12163996
I have

>> No.12164031

Based af

>> No.12164335

Bump

>> No.12164760

>>12164003
yeah

>> No.12164929

Bump

>> No.12164977
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12164977

>>12163825
>based
>redpilled
Always nice to remind yourself that you are alone in this world and will die a nobody

>> No.12165274

my diary desu

>> No.12165465

>>12163939
It's the royal we nupmnuts

>> No.12166067

bump

>> No.12166236

>>12163825
Based.

Portuguese are the best poets.
I wish you /lit/ards could read more portuguese poetry

>> No.12166248

>>12166236
Like who? Give me ones that are translated

>> No.12166325

>>12166248
I believe the ones mentioned below are translated:

Pessoa (obviously)
Camões
Mario Cesariny

Other fantastic poets which sadly are not translated:
Herberto Helder (genius, genius)
Al Berto
Sophia de Mello Breyner
Eugénio de Andrade
José Regio
Ruy Belo
Mário Sá Carneiro

It's quite sad that most portuguese poetry is not translated. We definitely have some of the best poetry in the world, specially if you like poems about sadness, love, existantialism and being homesick.

I'll leave you with this poem by Gonçalves Dias :
My land has palm trees
Where the thrush sings.
The birds that sing here
Do not sing as they do there.

Our skies have more stars,
Our valleys have more flowers.
Our forests have more life,
Our lives have more love.

In dreaming, alone, at night,
I find more pleasure there.
My land has palm trees
Where the thrush sings.

My land has beauties
That cannot be found here;
In dreaming – alone, at night –
I find more pleasure there.
My land has palm trees
Where the thrush sings.

May God never allow
That I die before I return;
Without seeing the beauties
That I cannot find here;
Without seeing the palm trees
Where the thrush sings.

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12166327

Anybody else read this translation?

>> No.12166334

>>12163825
it good

>> No.12166335

>>12163831
>>12163838
>>12163933
>>12163988
>>12164031
>>12166236
Absolutamente baseado e Pessoapillado.

>> No.12166341

>>12166248
Love is a fire that burns unseen,
a wound that aches yet isn’t felt,
an always discontent contentment,
a pain that rages without hurting,

a longing for nothing but to long,
a loneliness in the midst of people,
a never feeling pleased when pleased,
a passion that gains when lost in thought.

It’s being enslaved of your own free will;
it’s counting your defeat a victory;
it’s staying loyal to your killer.

But if it’s so self-contradictory,
how can Love, when Love chooses,
bring human hearts into sympathy?

Luís Vaz de Camões

>> No.12166342

>>12166327
Never read translations since I'm a native portuguese speaker. The portuguese version is absolutely genius, though.

>> No.12166395

hope to god you're all baiting

>> No.12166506

>>12166341
>Camões em Inglês

Crinjado e azul-pilulado.

>> No.12166580

>>12166395
what the fuck you mean, simpleton?

>> No.12166634

>>12163825
it fucking slaps

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>>12166395
How can you not like this? It deeply disturbs be that people who actively dislike such honest thoughts walk among us.

>> No.12166681

>>12163825
Bad. Only gays like it.

>> No.12167818

>>12163825
I just noticed the man in the cover has just gotten hit with a ball.

>> No.12168899

low test beta extrapolates his failures onto the universe: the poet

>> No.12169206

>>12168899
you did not understand the book

>> No.12169438

>>12169206
bo back to /r9k/