Today I share with you o poem from the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, maybe the greatest poet in the Portuguese language.
AUTOPSYCHOGRAPHY - Fernando Pessoa
The poet is a faker
Who’s so good at his act
He even fakes the pain
Of pain he feels in fact.
And those who read his words
Will feel in his writing
Neither of the pains he has
But just the one they’re missing.
And so around its track
This thing called the heart winds,
A little clockwork train
To entertain our minds.
AUTOPSICOGRAFIA - Fernando Pessoa (Original PT)
O poeta é um fingidor
Finge tão completamente
Que chega a fingir que é dor
A dor que deveras sente.
E os que lêem o que escreve,
Na dor lida sentem bem,
Não as duas que ele teve,
Mas só a que eles não têm.
E assim nas calhas de roda
Gira, a entreter a razão,
Esse comboio de corda
Que se chama coração.
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) was a Portuguese poet, writer, translator, literary critic, philosopher and publisher.
Wrote and translate in Portuguese, English and French and is described as one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language. Fernando Pessoa wrote under his own name and approximately seventy five other heteronyms, here is some of them: Alberto Caeiro, Álvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis and Bernardo Soares.
