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“To put back all the things people cluttered up
because they didn't understand what they were. “

“At other times I hear the wind blow,
And I feel that it was worth being born just to hear the wind blow.”

Romanticizing life. He like me frfr.

The sunset is beautiful, and so is the night that remains.

XLVI: I don't always manage to feel what I know I should feel. Only very slowly does my thought swim across the river, Weighed down as it is by the suit men forced it to wear.

VIII from the Keeper of Sheep.

Felt like I was teleported into the poem. A majestic experience.

So was Alvaro de Campos just Fernando Pessoa LARPing as Walt Whitman?

"I think and write the way flowers have color,
But how I express myself is less perfect,
For I lack the divine simplicity
Of being only my outer self."

I'm so happy to finally have gotten around to this

I'm so excited I found this! Most poets want to create a body of work; ambitious poets want to inspire a movement of followers. Pessoa, manically enterprising, tried to write a whole movement himself, inventing poets, writing their poems, drafting their biographies, even doing their astrological charts. Did he complete this mad enterprise? Absolutely not. Are the results uneven? Yes. Do I love him for trying? Dearly!