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I’m oppressed by the very self that encases me,
Fernando Pessoa • The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Modern Classics)
Pessoa is the Portuguese word for “person,” and there is nothing he less wanted to be. Again and again, in both poetry and prose, Pessoa denied that he existed as any kind of distinctive individual. “I’m beginning to know myself. I don’t exist,” he writes in one poem. “I’m the gap between what I’d like to be and what others have made of me. . . . T... See more
Fernando Pessoa’s Disappearing Act
Because I’m the size of what I see And not the size of my stature.
Fernando Pessoa • The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Modern Classics)
Chateaubriand or a canto of Lamartine
Fernando Pessoa • The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Modern Classics)
Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one.
Fernando Pessoa • The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Modern Classics)
Livro do desassossego (Clássicos da literatura mundial) (Portuguese Edition)
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Drunk from feeling, I wander as I walk straight ahead.