Thursday, July 5, 2007


If, After I D...


If, After I Die" If, after I die, they should want to write my biography, There's nothing more simple. I had just two dates, of my birth and of my death. In between the one and the other all the days where mine. I am easy to describe. I lived like mad. I loved things without any sentimentality. I never had a desire I could not fulfil, because I never went blind. Even hearing was to me never more than an accompaniment of seeing. I understood that things are real and all different from each other; I understood it with the eyes, never with thinking. To understand it with thinking would be to find them all equal. One day I felt sleepy like a child. I closed my eyes and slept. And by the way, I was only Nature poet."..Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese PoetTranslated by alexmatt on 10/03...

2 comments:

oosesnshcks82 said...

That is incredibly beautiful! Glad to see you're up and running on LJ:)

adonsmesiiah9750 said...

Thank you very much indeed, as I don't feel like writing myself, I am going to translate all of Fernando Pessoas's poems into english..He is the one who translated Poe into portuguese....