[HN Gopher] Alvaro de Campos
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       Alvaro de Campos
        
       Author : apollinaire
       Score  : 51 points
       Date   : 2021-04-25 01:29 UTC (21 hours ago)
        
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       | lencastre wrote:
       | Ricardo Reis
        
         | crescit_eundo wrote:
         | The second half of "Odes" is beautiful (trans. Edouard Roditi):
         | 
         | >> To be great, be whole: nothing that's you
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         | Should you exaggerate or exclude. In each thing, be all. Give
         | all you are
         | 
         | In the least you ever do.
         | 
         | The whole moon, because it rides so high,
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         | Is reflected in each pool. <<
        
       | travelbyphone wrote:
       | I recommend everyone to read "The Book of Disquiet" by Bernardo
       | Soares, a semi-heteronym of Fernando Pessoa.
        
       | napsterbr wrote:
       | I'm not well versed when it comes to poetry, but I happen to have
       | read a lot of Pessoa's work (mostly Alvaro de Campos) and it is
       | very touching. I'd go as far to say that it's worth learning
       | Portuguese (a very hard language) just so you can read Pessoa's
       | texts without the translation.
       | 
       | My personal favorite is Tabacaria [0] (Tobacco Shop). That's a
       | masterpiece.
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       | [0] - https://www.azores-adventures.com/2015/10/tabacaria-by-
       | ferna...
        
         | pedrosorio wrote:
         | > Portuguese (a very hard language)
         | 
         | Hard to learn? For whom? A native Japanese speaker? English?
         | Swahili?
         | 
         | The foreign service institute of the US department of state
         | classifies Portuguese as a category I language (easiest to
         | learn for English native speakers):
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         | https://www.state.gov/foreign-language-training/
        
         | andrepd wrote:
         | It's absolutely amazing, though I've gotta say I kinda
         | developed an aversion to Pessoa after it being crammed down our
         | throats all the time in high school x)
        
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