Marta

“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Sentir tudo de todas as maneiras; saber pensar com as emoções e sentir com o pensamento; não desejar muito senão com a imaginação; sofrer com coquetterie; ver claro para escrever justo; conhecer-se com fingimento e táctica, naturalizar-se diferente e com todos os documentos; em suma, usar por dentro todas as sensações, descansando-as até Deus; mas embrulhar de novo e repor na montra com aquele caixeiro que de aqui estou vendo com as latas pequenas da graxa da nova marca.”
― Fernando Pessoa, Livro do Desassossego I

“Três vezes do leme as mãos ergueu,
Três vezes ao leme as reprendeu,
E disse no fim de tremer três vezes:
«Aqui ao leme sou mais do que eu:
Sou um Povo que quer o que é teu;
E mais que o mostrengo, que me a alma teme
E roda nas trevas do fim do mundo,
Manda a vontade, que me ata ao leme,
De El-rei D. João Segundo!»”
― Fernando Pessoa

“You have been reading Byron. You have been marking the passages that seem to approve of your own character. I find marks against all those sentences which seem to express a sardonic yet passionate nature; a moth-like impetuosity dashing itself against hard glass. You thought, as you drew your pencil there, "I too throw off my cloak like that. I too snap my fingers in the face of destiny". Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There is a brown pool on the table - it is running among your books and papers. Now you mop it up, clumsily, with your pocket-handkerchief. You then stuff your handkerchief back into your pocket - that is not Byron; that is you; that is so essentially you that if I think of you in twenty years' time, when we are both famous, gouty and intolerable, it will be by that scene: and if you are dead, I shall weep.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves