2024-06-14 National Movie Night

【I'm beginning to know myself (Começo a conhecer-me)】

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)

I'm beginning to know myself. I don't exist. 

I'm the space between what I'd like to be and what others have made me, 

Or half of this space, since there's also life… 

That's me, after all… 

Turn off the light, shut the door, and get rid of the slipper noise in the hallway. 

Just let me be at ease and all by myself in my room.&

2024-06-14 National Strawberry Shortcake Day

【Odes (1933)】

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)

        To be great, be whole: nothing that's you

        Should you exaggerate or exclude.

        In each thing, be all. Give all you are

        In the least you ever do.

        The whole moon, because it

2024-06-14 National Cucumber Day

【Odes, Book I - 02 (1924)】

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)

        Of the gardens of Adonis, Lydia, I love

        Most of all those fugitive roses

        That on the day they are born,

        That very day, must also die.

        Eternal, for them, the light of day:

&n

2024-06-14 National Bourbon Day

【Odes】

Ricardo Reis, Heteronym of Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)

        Don't try to build in the space you suppose

        Is future, Lydia, and don't promise yourself

        Tomorrow. Quit hoping and be who you are

        Today. You alone are your life.

       &n

2024-06-14 National Cucumber Day

【I Am A Shepherd (Sou um guardador de rebanhos)】

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)

        I am a shepherd.

        The sheep are my thoughts

        And all my thoughts and sensations.

        I think with my eyes and ears,

        My feet and hands

2024-06-13 National Seersucker Day

【Countless Lives Inhabit Us (Vivem em nós inómeros)】

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)

            Countless lives inhabit us.

            I don't know, when I think or feel,

            Who it is that thinks or feels.

           &

2024-06-13 World Softball Day

【I Know, I Alone (Estar Sozinho)】 

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)

                    I know, I alone

                    How much it hurts, this heart

2024-06-13 National Weed Your Garden Day

【Every Day Without Joy Was Not Yours (Cada dia sem gozo não foi teu)】

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)

        Every day without joy was not yours

        (The day you didn't enjoy wasn't yours):

        You just had to stay with it. How much alive

        Without enjoying it, you don'

2024-06-13 Saint Anthony Festival

【Like A Mist (Tenho em mim como uma bruma)】

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)

        I have in me like a mist

        That nothing is or contains

        Longing for nothing,

        The desire for any good.

        I'm

2024-06-12 National Loving Day

【Portuguese Sea (Mar Português)】 

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)

        Oh salty sea, how much of your salt

        Are tears of Portugal!

        To get across you, how many mothers cried,

        How many sons prayed in vain!

        How many brides were never to

2024-06-11 National Corn on the Cob Day

【Crown Me with Roses (Coróname de rosas)】 

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)

            Crown me with roses,

            Crown me really

            With roses -

            Roses that burn out

    &n

2024-06-11 International Yarn Bombing Day

【Autopsychography (Autopsicographia)】 

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)

— Edwin Honig (Translator)

            The poet is a faker. He

            Fakes it so completely,

            He even fakes he's suffering

          &n

2024-06-11 National Making Life Beautiful Day

【When I did not have you (Quando eu não te tinha)】 

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)

    When I did not have you

    I loved Nature like a recluse as calm as Christ…

    Now I love nature

    Like a monk as calm as the Virgin Mary,

    Religiously, in my own way, as before,

    But in a different way by approaching life more.

&nb