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Fernando Pessoa

Born

in Lisbon, Portugal

June 13, 1888

Died

November 30, 1935

Website

http://casafernandopessoa.cm-lisboa.pt/index.ph...

Genre

Poetry, Fiction, Philosophy

Influences

Luís Vaz de Camões, Camilo Pessanha, Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Cesário Ver ...more

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Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa was a poet and writer.

It is sometimes said that the four greatest Portuguese poets of modern times are Fernando Pessoa. The statement is possible since Pessoa, whose name means ‘person’ in Portuguese, had three alter egos who wrote in styles completely different from his own. In fact Pessoa wrote under dozens of names, but Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis and Álvaro de Campos were – their creator claimed – full-fledged individuals who wrote things that he himself would never or could never write. He dubbed them ‘heteronyms’ rather than pseudonyms, since they were not false names but “other names”, belonging to distinct literary personalities. Not only were their styles different; they thought differently, they h ...more

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Average rating: 4.17 · 111,522 ratings · 11,661 reviews · 1,248 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Book of Disquiet 4.38 avg rating — 40,199 ratings — published 1982 — 358 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mensagem: Poemas Esotéricos by Fernando Pessoa, José Augusto Seabra (Coordenador) 4.09 avg rating — 10,083 ratings — published 1934 — 118 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El banquero anarquista 3.75 avg rating — 10,927 ratings — published 1922 — 223 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poems of Fernando Pessoa 4.46 avg rating — 4,625 ratings — published 1930 — 72 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro by Fernando Pessoa, Alberto Caeiro (heteronym) 4.42 avg rating — 3,328 ratings — published 1935 — 106 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Have More Souls Than One 3.95 avg rating — 3,451 ratings — published 1918 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poemas de Álvaro de Campos by Fernando Pessoa, Álvaro de Campos (heteronym) 4.52 avg rating — 2,446 ratings — published 1930 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (Translator) 4.37 avg rating — 2,035 ratings — published 2006 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fernando Pessoa and Co.: Selected Poems by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (Translator) 4.28 avg rating — 1,552 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Keeper of Sheep by Fernando Pessoa, Edwin Honig (Translator), Susan M. Brown (Translator) 4.24 avg rating — 1,467 ratings — published 1914 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

tags: literature, reading, solitude

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“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”
― Fernando Pessoa

tags: hope, longing, pain, regret, yearning

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“My past is everything I failed to be.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

tags: failure, past, self, time

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