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Fernando Pessoa
The Fernando Pessoa House has a unique treasure: the private library of this great literary figure. It’s not very often one can find an entire library belonging to a writer with Pessoa’s universal dimension.
Constantine Petrou Cavafy
The Cavafy Archive website was created by the Center for Neo-Hellenic Studies and is owned by the Onassis Foundation. It contains all of Cavafy’s major works in the translation of Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard (edited by G.P. Savidis)- Sophie Hannah Official Sophie Hannah Website
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THE KEEPER OF FLOCKS – II
My eyes are as clear as the sunflower. I have a custom of walking in the streets Looking to the right and to the left, And once in a while I look backwards … And what I see at each … Continue reading
Posted in David Scanlon (Translations), Fernando Pessoa, Poetry, Translation
Tagged Freedom, Happiness, Joy, Learning, Listening, Love, Poetry, Seeing, Truth
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AH YOU SEEK A LAMP BETTER THAN SUNLIGHT!
Ah you seek a lamp better than sunlight! Seek fields greener than these! Seek flowers more lovelier than these I see! To me this sun, and these fields, and flowers satisfy me. But, if I am discontented, What I want … Continue reading
Posted in David Scanlon (Translations), Fernando Pessoa, Poetry, Translation
Tagged Life, Listening, Love, Poetry, Seeing, The Muse
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I SPENT THE WHOLE NIGHT, WITHOUT SLEEP, SEEING, WITHOUT SPACE, HER MIRAGE
I spent the whole night, without sleep, seeing, without space, her mirage, And seeing her always in different ways when encountering her visage. I have thoughts with the memory of what she’s like in speaking of an age, And in … Continue reading
Posted in David Scanlon, David Scanlon (Translations), Fernando Pessoa, Poetry, Translation
Tagged Creativity, Listening, Love, Poetry, Seeing, Truth, Wisdom, Words
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PERHAPS THOSE WHO SEE WELL AREN’T SUITABLE TO EXPERIENCE
Perhaps those who see well aren’t suitable to experience As they do not like to be a great deal different to the habits of others. You need to have habits for all the things, And every thing has its habits … Continue reading
Posted in David Scanlon (Translations), Fernando Pessoa, Poetry, Translation
Tagged Alive, Beauty, Life, Listening, Love, Poetry, Seeing, Truth, Wisdom, Work
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WHEN I DID NOT KNOW HER
When I did not know her I loved Nature like a recluse as calm as Christ… Now I love nature Like a monk as calm as the Virgin Mary, Religiously, in my own way, as before, But in a different … Continue reading
Posted in David Scanlon (Translations), Fernando Pessoa, Poetry, Translation
Tagged Beauty, Joy, Learning, Life, Listening, Love, Poetry, Seeing, Truth
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