My fave is a poem by FERNANDO PESSOA a portuguese poet of the 20th century, I love it so I had to have it tattooed, and it says something like this (sorry for the poor translation):
translated by Michael Hamburger
- Autopsychography (it’s the title) -
Poets feign and conceal
So completely feign and pretend
That the pain which they really feel
They'll feign for you in the end
And he who reads what they've done
Never senses the twofold pain
That's in them, only the one
Which they never feel but feign
And so, to amuse our minds
Round again to the start
On its circular railway winds
That toy train called the heart.
Original version
- AUTOPSICOGRAFIA -
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.
❤️
I hope you like it!
xoxo
Caia
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