Which one?!?!?!
"On the day when I finally desisted - it was the 8th of March, 1914 - I
went over to a high desk and, taking a sheet of paper, began to write,
standing, as I always write when I can. And I wrote thirty-odd poems
straight off, in a kind of ecstasy whose nature I cannot define. It was the
triumphal day of my life, and I shall never be able to have another like
it. I started with a title - 'The Keeper of Sheep'. And what followed was
the apparition of somebody in me, to whom I at once gave the name of
Alberto Caeiro. Forgive me that absurdity of the phrase: my master had
appeared in me. This was the immediate sensation I had."
Or what of Ricardo Reis?
"I jerked the latent Ricardo Reis out of his false paganism, discovered his
name, and adjust him to himself, because at this stage I already saw him.
And suddenly, in a derivation opposed to that of Ricardo Reis, there arose
in me impetuously a new individual. At one go, and on the typewriter,
without interruption or correction, there arose the 'Triumphal Ode' of
Alvaro de Campos - the Ode along with this name and the man along with the
name he has."
kent johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >
And how 'bout that Pessoa guy? Now there's a fellow who "found his voz"!
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