“The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman:
the endless sea is Portuguese.”
Poem "Padrão", Versos 11-12
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Original: O mar com fim será grego ou romano:
O mar sem fim é português.
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Fernando Pessoa 288
Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publi… 1888–1935Related quotes
The Earthly Paradise (1868-70), The Lady of the Land
Context: It happened once, some men of Italy
Midst the Greek Islands went a sea-roving,
And much good fortune had they on the sea:
Of many a man they had the ransoming,
And many a chain they gat and goodly thing;
And midst their voyage to an isle they came,
Whereof my story keepeth not the name.
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By Artemisa, the best persian warrior in Salamina, a very courageous woman. A superbe irony!
Book 8, Ch. 68.
The Histories
“The river of time flowed unmarked, towards the endless seas of timelike infinity.”
Source: Ring (1994), Chapter 35 (p. 891; closing words)
“It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.”
Ibid.
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Foi num mar interior que o rio da minha vida findou.
“Hauling fish from the sea—what endless toil. One could almost say, what an eternal problem.”
Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book Three: The House of the Poet
“A drop
Melting into the sea,
Everyone can see.
But the sea
Absorped
In a drop —
A rare one
can follow!”
Azfar Hussain translations
