“All is so calm and chaste, so like a dream.
That looking at this masterpiece of God, I ask myself
Where is there a painter, an artist so supreme,So profoundly wise as to unfurl
A canvas with a more arresting scene,
More delicate and beautiful in this World?”

— Florbela Espanca

Tudo é tranquilo e casto e sonhador...
Olhando esta paisagem que é uma tela
De Deus, eu penso então: Onde há pintor<p>Onde há artista de saber profundo,
Que possa imaginar coisa mais bela,
Mais delicada e linda neste Mundo?
Juvenilia: versos inéditos de Florbela Espanca (1946), p. 56
Translated by John D. Godinho
Juvenília (1931), No meu Alentejo

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Tudo é tranquilo e casto e sonhador… Olhando esta paisagem que é uma tela De Deus, eu penso então: Onde há pintor<p>Onde há artista de saber profundo, Que possa imaginar coisa mais bela, Mais delicada e linda neste Mundo?

Juvenília (1931), No meu Alentejo

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