3 Fernando Pessoa Quotes on Poetry

Fernando Pessoa quotes on poetry

12. Oh salty sea, how much of your salt / is tears from Portugal

84. I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.

111. If a man can only write well when drunk, I'll tell him: get drunk. And if he tells me that his liver suffers with it, I'll answer: what's your liver? It's a dead thing that lives as long as you live, and the poems you'll write will live without a as long as.