Fernando Pessoa
(1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher
“It goes on, terrifyingly repetitive. One could not do without repetition in life, like the beating of the heart, but it was also true that the beating of the heart was not all there was to life.”
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Kóbó Abe
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book
The Woman in the Dunes
Part 2, Ch. 24
Source: The Woman in the Dunes (1962)
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“Could it think, the heart would stop beating.”
O coração, se pudesse pensar, pararia.
Source: The Book of Disquietude ["Livro do Desassossego"], by Bernardo Soares (Pessoa's semi-heteronym), translated by Richard Zenith (1996), text 1
“But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.”
Source: Women in Love (1920), Ch. 15
Kenneth Rexroth
(1905–1982) American poet, writer, anarchist, academic and conscientious objector
In Defense of the Earth (1956), She Is Away
Context: Now I know surely and forever,
However much I have blotted our
Waking love, its memory is still
there. And I know the web, the net,
The blind and crippled bird. For then, for
One brief instant it was not blind, nor
Trapped, not crippled. For one heart beat the
Heart was free and moved itself. O love,
I who am lost and damned with words,
Whose words are a business and an art,
I have no words. These words, this poem, this
Is all confusion and ignorance.
But I know that coached by your sweet heart,
My heart beat one free beat and sent
Through all my flesh the blood of truth.
Source: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 14 (p. 376)
“Well, the heart that hurts is a heart that beats.”
Bono
(1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2
"One Step Closer"
Lyrics, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)
William Wordsworth
(1770–1850) English Romantic poet
To ____ . (Let other Bards of Angels sing), st. 3 (1824).
