At times I also hear the wind blow by And find that merely to hear the wind blow makes it worth having been born. - Remembering Fernando Pessoa on his birthday Rua Garrett in Lisbon 📷 F. Giaccone - ThreadSky

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dean.bsky.social • 9 days ago

At times I also hear the wind blow by
And find that merely to hear the wind blow makes
it worth having been born.
- Remembering Fernando Pessoa on his birthday

Rua Garrett in Lisbon
📷 F. Giaccone

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dean.bsky.social•9 days ago

"I think of five grey-suited gentlemen: Constantin Cavafy, Franz Kafka, T.S. Eliot, Fernando Pessoa, Jorge Luis Borges. They are the ones who have renewed the language and shown us the way forward."
- Gabriel Josipovici

Alberto Caeiro's drawing of Fernando Pessoa, 1998

dean.bsky.social•9 days ago

"We are torn between the intuition which believes, and the reason which denies; that is the agonizing dilemma which Pessoa presents so vividly in his verse."
- Peter Rickard

Alfredo Margarido, A Biblioteca, 1988

dean.bsky.social•9 days ago

"When Milton wrote a sonnet, he wrote as if he were to live or die by that sole sonnet. No sonnet should be written in any other spirit. An epigram may be a straw, but it should be the straw at which the dying poet grasps."
- Fernando Pessoa

Pessoa by Júlio Pomar

dean.bsky.social•9 days ago

The frightful reality of things
Is my everyday discovery.

Happy birthday Fernando Pessoa 🎂

His bronze statue presides over the Caf a Brasileira on Rua Garrett in Lisbon.
📷 Horacio Villalobos, 2016

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