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Hírnév és lángelme
Fernando Pessoa idézet
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Fernando Pessoa
Születési dátum: 13. június 1888
Halál dátuma: 30. november 1935
Más nevek: Ֆերնանտո Բեսոա, Ferdinando Pessoa
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa portugál költő.
Idézetek Fernando Pessoa
„Az ember éppoly oktalan állat, mint a többi. Az egyetlen különbség abban áll, hogy a többiek egyszerű oktalan állatok, az ember pedig összetett oktalan állat.“
Forrás: Bölcsességek könyve, Szalay Könyvkiadó, 1999. ISBN 9639178276
„To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.“
— Fernando Pessoa, könyv The Book of Disquiet
Forrás: The Book of Disquiet
„The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd: the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world's existence. All these half-tones of the soul's consciousness create a raw landscape within us, a sun eternally setting on what we are.“
Os sentimentos que mais doem, as emoções que mais pungem, são os que são absurdos – a ânsia de coisas impossíveis, precisamente porque são impossíveis, a saudade do que nunca houve, o desejo do que poderia ter sido, a mágoa de não ser outro, a insatisfação da existência do mundo. Todos estes meios tons da consciencia da alma criam em nós uma paisagem dolorida, um eterno sol-pôr do que somos.
The Book of Disquietude, trans. Richard Zenith, text 196
„I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect.“
— Fernando Pessoa, könyv The Book of Disquiet
Repudiei sempre que me compreendessem. Ser compreendido é prostituir-se. Prefiro ser tomado a sério como o que não sou, ignorado humanamente, com decência e naturalidade.
Forrás: The Book of Disquietude, trans. Richard Zenith, text 128
„We are two abysses — a well staring at the sky.“
— Fernando Pessoa, könyv The Book of Disquiet
Ibid., p. 48
The Book of Disquiet
Eredeti: Somos dois abismos — um poço fitando o céu.
„Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.“
— Fernando Pessoa, könyv The Book of Disquiet
A literatura é a maneira mais agradável de ignorar a vida.
Változat: To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.
Forrás: The Book of Disquietude, trans. Richard Zenith, text 116
„My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.“
— Fernando Pessoa, könyv The Book of Disquiet
Forrás: The Book of Disquiet
„I'm nothing,
I'll always be nothing.
I can't even wish to be something.
Aside from that, I've got all the world's dreams inside me.“
Não sou nada.
Nunca serei nada.
Não posso querer ser nada.
À parte isso, tenho em mim todos os sonhos do mundo.
Álvaro de Campos (heteronym), Tabacaria ["The Tobacconist's" or "The Tobacco Shop"] (15 January 1928)
Variant translations:
I am nothing.
Never shall be anything.
Cannot will to be anything.
This apart, I have in me all the dreams of the world.
trans. Jonathan Griffin, in Selected Poems (Penguin Books, 1974), p. 111
I am not nothing.
I will never be nothing.
I cannot ever want to be nothing.
Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams of the world.
In Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations (2005), p. 649
I am nothing.
I shall never be anything.
I cannot even wish to be anything.
Apart from this, I have within me all the dreams of the world.
Változat: I am nothing.
I will never be anything.
I cannot wish to be anything.
Bar that, I have in me all the dreams of the world.
„To be great, be whole; don't exaggerate
Or leave out any part of you,
Be complete in each thing. Put all you are
Into the least of your acts.
So too in each lake, with its lofty life,
The whole moon shines.“
Para ser grande, sê inteiro: nada
Teu exagera ou exclui.
Sê todo em cada coisa. Põe quanto és
No mínimo que fazes.
Assim em cada lago a lua toda
Brilha, porque alta vive.
Ricardo Reis (heteronym), Ode (14 February 1933), in A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe, trans. Richard Zenith (Penguin, 2006)
Forrás: Poems of Fernando Pessoa
„I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.“
— Fernando Pessoa, könyv The Book of Disquiet
Ibid., p. 79
Eredeti: Levo comigo a consciência da derrota como um pendão de vitória.
Forrás: The Book of Disquiet
„I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything.“
— Fernando Pessoa, könyv The Book of Disquiet
Forrás: The Book of Disquiet
