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Why is the word yes so brief?
It should be
the longest,
the hardest,
so that you could not decide in an instant to say it,
so that upon reflection you could stop
in the middle of saying it.

(Vera Pavlova)

My tears are like the quiet drift
Of petals from some magic rose;
And all my grief flows from the rift
Of unremembered skies and snows.

I think, that if I touched the earth,
It would crumble;
It is so sad and beautiful,
So tremulously like a dream.

(Dylan Thomas)

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on that sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

(Dylan Thomas)

(Poem by Taylor Mali)

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Harmonioso vulto que em mim se dilui.
Tu és o poema
e és a origem donde ele flui.
Intuito de ter. Intuito de amor
não compreendido.
Fica assim amor. Fica assim intuito.
Prometido.

(Natália Correia)

each man must realize
that it can all disappear very
quickly:
the cat, the woman, the job,
the front tire,
the bed, the walls, the
room; all our necessities
including love,
rest on foundations of sand -
and any given cause,
no matter how unrelated:
the death of a boy in Hong Kong
or a blizzard in Omaha …
can serve as your undoing.
all your chinaware crashing to the
kitchen floor, your girl will enter
and you’ll be standing, drunk,
in the center of it and she’ll ask:
my god, what’s the matter?
and you’ll answer: I don’t know,
I don’t know …

(Charles Bukowski)

Recomeça…
Se puderes,
Sem angústia e sem pressa.

E os passos que deres
Nesse caminho duro
Do futuro
Dá-os em liberdade.

Enquanto não alcances
Não descanses.

De nenhum fruto queiras só metade.
E, nunca saciado
Vai colhendo
Ilusões sucessivas no pomar
Sempre a sonhar
E vendo
Acordado,
O logro da aventura.

És homem, não te esqueças!
Só é tua a loucura
Onde com lucidez, te reconheças.

(Miguel Torga, Diário XIII)

Winter is here – Let us welcome him on,
Remember Old Christmas is near;
And when Christmas with all his gay feasting has gone,
Why then we’ve the merry New Year;
Here’s a health to the rich who will give to the poor,
Let Plenty and Mercy ne’er part,
And though bitter winds blow through the white clouds of snow,
No Winter shall fall on the heart.

(Eliza Cook)

Amongst the flowers I
am alone with my pot of wine
drinking by myself; then lifting
my cup I asked the moon
to drink with me, its reflection
and mine in the wine cup, just
the three of us; then I sigh
for the moon cannot drink,
and my shadow goes emptily along
with me never saying a word;
with no other friends here, I can
but use these two for company;
in the time of happiness, I
too must be happy with all
around me; I sit and sing
and it is as if the moon
accompanies me; then if I
dance, it is my shadow that
dances along with me; while
still not drunk, I am glad
to make the moon and my shadow
into friends, but then when
I have drunk too much, we
all part; yet these are
friends I can always count on
these who have no emotion
whatsoever; I hope that one day
we three will meet again,
deep in the Milky Way.

(Li Po)

Esta manhã gostaria de ter dado ontem
um grande passeio àquela praia
onde ontem por sinal passei o dia
É difícil a vida dos homens senhor
Os anjos tinham outras possibilidades
e alguns deles foi o que tu sabes
Esta terra não está feita para nós
Mesmo que ela fosse diferente
nós quereríamos talvez outra terra
talvez esta de que agora dispomos
Não achas meu senhor que temos braços a mais
dias a mais complicações a mais?
Pra nascer e morrer seria necessário tanto?
Falhamos tantas vezes (Como os judeus que juraram
não comer nem beber até matar paulo
e apesar disso não o mataram)
É difícil a vida difícil a morte.
Por vezes os homens juntam-se todos
ou quase todos e organizam
grandes manifestações. Mas nada disso os dispensa
da grande solidão da morte
de termos de morrer cada um por nossa conta
Todos tivemos pai e mãe
nenhum de nós que eu saiba veio de salém

(Ruy Belo)