5 Fernando Pessoa Quotes on Writing

Fernando Pessoa quotes on writing

57. I reread? I lied! I don't dare to reread. I cannot reread. What's the point, for me, in rereading?

81. To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.

106. I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last with praise, I will at last have the people who understand me, those mine, the true family to be born in and be loved. [...] I will only be understood in effigy, when affection no longer repays the dead the unaffection that was, when living.

145. When I write, I solemnly visit myself.

153. I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.