Fernando Pessoa
Who is Fernando Pessoa
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa (Portuguese: [fɨɾˈnɐ̃du pɨˈsoɐ]; 13 June 1888 – 30 November 1935) was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher, and philosopher, described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language. He also wrote in and translated from English and French.
Pessoa was a prolific writer, and not only under his own name, for he created approximately seventy-five others, of which three stand out, Alberto Caeiro, Álvaro de Campos, and Ricardo Reis. He did not call them pseudonyms because he felt that this did not capture their true independent intellectual life and instead called them heteronyms. These imaginary figures sometimes held unpopular or extre...
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- Dultta5: “ in dreams i have achieved everything. ”
― fernando pessoa, the book of disquiet
- Arstager: “some people have one great dream in life which they fail to fulfill. others have no dream at all and fail to fulfill even that.”
—fernando pessoa
- Shaymabahy: fine writers do psychoanalysis
“we never love anyone. what we love is the idea we have of someone. it’s our own concept—our own selves—that we love.”
fernando pessoa, the book of disquiet, 1982
- Lacancircle: fine writers do psychoanalysis
“we never love anyone. what we love is the idea we have of someone. it’s our own concept—our own selves—that we love.”
fernando pessoa, the book of disquiet, 1982
- Sandwichguy48: “may the gods change my dreams, but not my talent for dreaming.” - fernando pessoa
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