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Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Pessoa, Autopsicografia

Lisboa, Pessoa a Brasileira
(fonte: cultura genial)
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Reality and its image. Be it a poem or a painting, a movie or a novel, the reality it claims to present is just an image. The creator cannot be but a "fingidor", a pretender. Even if it's the creator's own life, and even if the artist throws it into the œuvre like an empty coke box, it remains still a pretended reality. "Ceci n'est pas une pipe," says Magritte, "O poeta é um fingidor," says Pessoa. And then comes the lector, the attender, re-imagining the image, taking it toward her or his own reality.



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.
(fonte: Arquivo Pessoa)




Autopsicografía 

El poeta es un fingidor.
Finge tan completamente
que hasta finge que es dolor
el dolor que de veras siente.

Y quienes leen lo que escribe,
sienten, en el dolor leído,
no los dos que el poeta vive
sino aquél que no han tenido.

Y así va por su camino,
distrayendo a la razón,
ese tren sin real destino
que se llama corazón.





Autopsychography

The poet is a man who feigns
And feigns so thoroughly, at last
He manages to feign as pain
The pain he really feels,

And those who read what once he wrote
Feel clearly, in the pain they read,
Neither of the pains he felt,
Only a pain they cannot sense.

And thus, around its jolting track
There runs, to keep our reason busy,
The circling clockwork train of ours
That men agree to call a heart.




(Fernando Pessoa)

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