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JD
Nutt and Fernando Pessoa in Lisbon Portugal in front of
the Casa Havaneza.
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| Famous
quotes of Fernando Pessoa... |
| No
intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some
stupidity is mixed in with it. |
| Success
consists in being successful, not in having potential for
success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of
a palace, but there's no palace till it's built. |
| All
is worthwhile if the soul is not small. |
| Look,
there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates. |
| Could
it think, the heart would stop beating. |
| To
feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to
remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's
living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost. |
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| Meeting
Fernando |
| by JD Nutt, IG Web-Editor
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| Report last updated on
Oct 3rd, 2010 -
Oklahoma City, OK. |
| It was a great opportunity
and a bit of luck that I was privileged to meet the
likeness of Fernando Pessoa on a recent trip to Lisbon,
Portugal, thanks to Nubia
Wood. |
| Fernando António
Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa, known mainly as Fernando Pessoa,
born June 13, 1888 in Lisbon,
Portugal and died of cirrhosis November 30, 1935 in the same city at the
Hospital of São Luís. |
| He was a Portuguese poet, writer,
literary critic and translator, and one of the most
significant literary figures of the 20th century. Also, he
was trilingual in Portuguese, English,
and in French. |
| The
critic Harold
Bloom has referred to him in the book The
Western Canon as the most representative poet of
the 20th century, along with Pablo
Neruda. |
| Pessoa was the Agatha
Christie of his time. |
| He is still an icon in
Lisbon today. Many loyal followers will not let us forget
him. |
The city has to ritually
remove graffiti and painted images of Fernando from city
buildings such as this one below...
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