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it’s the sailboat that passes misc/poetry

BY THE MOONLIGHT, IN THE DISTANCE

By the moonlight, in the distance,
A sailboat on the river
Sails peacefully by.
What does it reveal?

I don’t know, but my being
Feels suddenly strange,
And I dream without seeing
The dreams that I have.

What anguish engulfs me?
What love can’t I…

—p.234 Fernando Pessoa and Co.: Selected Poems From Oblique Rain (223) by Fernando Pessoa
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it’s only a vast and hollow sky

GOD

At times I’m the god I carry in myself,
And then I’m the god, the believer and the prayer
And the ivory image
In which this god is forgotten.

At times I’m no more than an atheist
Of this god I am when exalted.
I see in myself an entire sky,
And it’s only a vast and hollow sky.

—p.222 from SONGBOOK (219) by Fernando Pessoa