As''I love love love. I know of no other reason to love but to love. What do you want to tell you, and I love you, if what I tell you is that I love?''Fernando Pessoa
The above was written by one of the greatest Portuguese poets of history, which together with Luís Vaz Camões is named one of the most important writers of the poet in Portuguese culture.
Fernando Pessoa was born in Lisbon - Portugal on June 13, 1888 come and he died on November 30, 1935 also in London at age 47, victim of a liver cirrhosis. His last sentence was written in English:''I know not what tomorrow Will bring ...'' (''I do not know what tomorrow will bring'').
Fernando Pessoa learned English when he moved to South Africa for six years because of the marriage of his mother. Of the four works in his lifetime he published three of them were written in English.
Throughout life Fernando P. worked in various areas such as: manager, editor, literary critic, political activist, translator, journalist, inventor, publicist and advertising, while that produced his literary work, he served as correspondent in many commercial enterprises.
Fernando Pessoa published works: 35 sonnets in 1918 (English) English Poemsl-ll and English Poems lll in 1922 (English), Message in 1934 (Portuguese), the winning work by the 'Secretary of National Propaganda' in the category poem, The Interregnum in 1928 (Portuguese), a book that consists of a Defense of Military Dictatorship in Portugal.
Fernando Pessoa followed the Gnostic Christian religion and was therefore against all organized churches in the main Catholic church.
The above was written by one of the greatest Portuguese poets of history, which together with Luís Vaz Camões is named one of the most important writers of the poet in Portuguese culture.
Fernando Pessoa was born in Lisbon - Portugal on June 13, 1888 come and he died on November 30, 1935 also in London at age 47, victim of a liver cirrhosis. His last sentence was written in English:''I know not what tomorrow Will bring ...'' (''I do not know what tomorrow will bring'').
Fernando Pessoa learned English when he moved to South Africa for six years because of the marriage of his mother. Of the four works in his lifetime he published three of them were written in English.
Throughout life Fernando P. worked in various areas such as: manager, editor, literary critic, political activist, translator, journalist, inventor, publicist and advertising, while that produced his literary work, he served as correspondent in many commercial enterprises.
Fernando Pessoa published works: 35 sonnets in 1918 (English) English Poemsl-ll and English Poems lll in 1922 (English), Message in 1934 (Portuguese), the winning work by the 'Secretary of National Propaganda' in the category poem, The Interregnum in 1928 (Portuguese), a book that consists of a Defense of Military Dictatorship in Portugal.
Fernando Pessoa followed the Gnostic Christian religion and was therefore against all organized churches in the main Catholic church.
On February 1, 1913 Fernando Pessoa wrote a letter to his friend Mario Beirão which will be shown in an excerpt below:
"I am currently going through one of those crises that, when they do in agriculture is usually called" crisis of abundance. " My soul is in a state of rapid ideation so intense that I need to my attention a notebook, and yet there are many papers I have to fill some are lost, they were so many, and if others can not read then, for more than written in a hurry. The ideas that cause me lose a great torture, that torture to survive dark mind others. V. hardly imagine that the Rua do Arsenal, on movement, has been my poor head. English verse, Portuguese, arguments, themes, projects, bits of things that do not know what they are letters which I can not begin or end, lightning reviews, murmurs of metaphysical ... a whole literature, my dear Mario, who will the fog - to the mist - the mist ... [...]
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