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Portugal - Poetry International Web login < back lvaro de Campos (Fernando Pessoa) < previous poem next > Smbolos? Estou farto de smbolos Uns dizem-me que tudo smbolo. Symbols? Im sick of symbols... Todos me dizem nada. Some people tell me that everything is symbols. Theyre telling me nothing. Quais smbolos? Sonhos Que o sol seja um smbolo, est bem What symbols? Dreams... Que a lua seja um smbolo, est bem Let the sun be a symbol, fine... Que a terra seja um smbolo, est bem Let the moon be a symbol, fine... Mas quem repara no sol seno quando a chuva Let the earth be a symbol, fine... cessa But who notices the sun except when the rain stops E ele rompe das nuvens e aponta para trs das And it breaks through the clouds and points behind its back costas To the blue of the sky? Para o azul do cu? And who notices the moon except to admire Mas quem repara na lua seno para achar Not it but the beautiful light it radiates? Bela a luz que ela espalha, e no bem ela? And who notices the very earth we tread? Mas quem repara na terra, que o que pisa? We say earth and think of fields, trees and hills, Chama terra aos campos, s rvores, aos montes Unwittingly diminishing it, Por uma diminuio instintiva, For the sea is also earth. Porque o mar tambm terra Bem, v, que tudo isso seja smbolos Mas que smbolo , no o sol, no a lua, no a terra, Mas neste poente precoce e azulando-se menos, O sol entre farrapos findos de nuvens, Enquanto a lua j vista, mstica, no outro lado, E o que fica da luz do dia Doira a cabea da costureira que pra vagamente esquina Onde se demorava outrora (mora perto) com o namorado que a deixou? Smbolos? No quero smbolos Queria s pobre figura de magreza e desamparo! Que o namorado voltasse para a costureira. 1934, lvaro de Campos (Fernando Pessoa) From: Poesia Publisher: Assrio & Alvim, Lisbon, 2002 ISBN: 972-37-0677-6 share http://www.poetryinternational.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=7066 November 7, 2011 Okay, let all of this be symbols. But whats the symbol not the sun, not the moon, not the earth In this premature sunset amidst the fading blue With the sun caught in expiring tatters of clouds And the moon already mystically present at the other end of the sky As the last remnant of daylight Gilds the head of the seamstress who hesitates at the corner Where she used to linger (she lives nearby) with the boyfriend who left her? Symbols? I dont want symbols. All I want poor frail and forlorn creature! Is for the boyfriend to go back to the seamstress.

Translation: 1998, Richard Zenith From: Fernando Pessoa & Co. Selected Poems Publisher: Grove Press, New York, 1998 ISBN: 0-8021-3627-3

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