“To be a poet is to be taller, to be bigger
Than men! It is to bite as if you’re kissing!
It is to give alms, although you are a beggar like
King of the Realm where only pain is missing!It is to have a thousand desires for splendor
And do not even know what we want!
It is to have inside yourself a flaming star,
It is to have the condor’s mighty claw and wing!It is to be hungry, to be thirsty of Infinity!
By helmet, golden and satin mornings…
It is to condense the world into one lonely cry!And it is loving you, thus, hopelessly…
And it is you being soul, and blood, and life in me
And tell it singing to everyone!”
Ser poeta é ser mais alto, é ser maior<br>Do que os homens! Morder como quem beija!<br>É ser mendigo e dar como quem seja<br>Rei do Reino de Áquem e de Além Dor!<p>É ter de mil desejos o esplendor<br>E não saber sequer que se deseja!<br>É ter cá dentro um astro que flameja,<br>É ter garras e asas de condor!<p>É ter fome, é ter sede de Infinito!<br>Por elmo, as manhas de oiro e de cetim...<br>É condensar o mundo num só grito!<p>E é amar-te, assim, perdidamente...<br>É seres alma, e sangue, e vida em mim<br>E dizê-lo cantando a toda a gente! <br class="br">Quoted in Citações e Pensamentos de Florbela Espanca (2012), p. 163 <br class="br"> Translated http://emocaoeeuforia.wordpress.com/2012/12/10/beautiful-flower-flor-bela/ by Isabel Teles <br class="br">The Flowering Heath (1931), "Perdidamente"
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