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        Pessoa, F. (1999). from SONGBOOK. In Pessoa, F. Fernando Pessoa and Co.: Selected Poems. Grove Press, pp. 219-222

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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.

3 June 1913

—p.222 by Fernando Pessoa 1 year, 6 months ago

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.

3 June 1913

—p.222 by Fernando Pessoa 1 year, 6 months ago

Fernando Pessoa and Co.: Selected Poems
by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith