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Fernando António Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, and publisher. He has been described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese literature. He also wrote in and translated from English and French.
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culture · Portuguese poet, writer, and philosopher (1888–1935) · poet · translator · writer · philosopher · essayist · playwright · literary critic · prose writer · publisher · also Fernando Pessoa, Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa, Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa, Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, Bernardo Soares
Born 13 June 1888 · Died 30 November 1935 · Q173481
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“Here at the helm I am more than myself:I am a People who wants the sea that is yours;And more than the blighter, that my soul fearsAnd rolls on the darkness of the end of the world,Orders the will, that ties me at the helm,Of His Majesty King John the Second!”
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“Who dared pierceInto my dens that I do not reveal,My black ceilings of the end of the world?”
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“a knowledge of the language would be indispensable, for instance, to appraise the”
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“s doctrine of Thelema in several fragments, including Moral. Pessoa declared about secret societies: I am also very interested in knowing whether a second edition is shortly to be expected of Arthur Edward Waite”
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The Economic Times: Quote of the day by Fernando Pessoa: 'We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we wou
e-Global: Portugal: Estado adquire manuscritos de Fernando Pessoa e de outros autores portugueses
ISTOÉ Independente: Portugal adquire “manuscritos raros” de Pessoa e Castelo Branco
Brasil 247: Frase do dia de Fernando Pessoa: “Tudo vale a pena quando a alma não é pequena.”
(fifty years after his death), Pessoa's remains were moved to the Hieronymites Monastery, in Lisbon, where Vasco da Gama, Luís de Camões, and Alexandre Herculano are also buried
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Died 1935-11-30.
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“s invasion of Abyssinia and fascism as a threat to human liberty everywhere. On 29 November 1935, Pessoa was taken to the Hospital de São Luís, suffering from abdominal pain and a high fever; there he wrote, in English, his last words:”
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Pessoa worked in twenty-one firms located in Lisbon's downtown, sometimes in two or three of them simultaneously
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“I know not what tomorrow will bring”
Supportive of the military dictatorship but after the establishment of the New State, in 1933, Pessoa became disenchanted with the regime and wrote critically of Salazar and fascism in general, maintaining a hostile stan
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Says, in respect of the earlier work: "A new and revised edition is in the forefront of my literary schemes
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Pessoa wrote in English a guidebook to Lisbon but it remained unpublished until 1992
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Following the scandal known as "Literatura de Sodoma" (Literature of Sodom), which Pessoa started with his paper "António Botto e o Ideal Estético em Portugal" (António Botto and the Aesthetic Ideal in Portugal), publish
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A further two English poetry volumes: English Poems I–II and English Poems III by Fernando Pessoa
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The prestigious literary journal Athenaeum included one of those poems
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Pessoa published in Lisbon two slim volumes of English verse: Antinous and 35 Sonnets, received by the British literary press without enthusiasm
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Pessoa wrote an impressive letter to his aunt and godmother, then living in Switzerland with her daughter and son-in-law, in which he describes this "mystery case" that surprised him
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Created the heteronym Raphael Baldaya, an astrologer who planned to write "System of Astrology" and "Introduction to the Study of Occultism"
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A group of artists and poets, including Fernando Pessoa, Mário de Sá-Carneiro and Almada Negreiros, created the literary magazine Orpheu, which introduced modernist literature to Portugal
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Fernando Pessoa entered the literary world with a critical essay, published in the cultural journal A Águia, which triggered one of the most important literary debates in the Portuguese intellectual world of the 20th cen
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Fernando Pessoa wrote a set of essays (later collected as The New Portuguese Poetry) for the cultural journal A Águia (The Eagle), founded in Oporto, in December 1910, and run by the republican association Renascença Por
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But the name ibis, the sacred bird of Ancient Egypt and inventor of the alphabet in Greek mythology, would remain an important symbolic reference for him
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And the patriotic outburst resulting from the successful republican revolution in 1910, influenced the development of the budding writer; as did his step-uncle, Henrique dos Santos Rosa, a poet and retired soldier, who i
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Pessoa was influenced by French symbolists and decadents such as Charles Baudelaire, Maurice Rollinat, and Stéphane Mallarmé
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Born 1888-06-13.
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