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Monday 4 March 2013

Atravessar a ponte no tempo - Cross the bridge in time

Deito-me ao comprido na erva.
E esqueço do quanto me ensinaram.
O que me ensinaram nunca me deu mais calor nem mais frio,
O que me disseram que havia nunca me alterou a forma de uma coisa.
O que me aprenderam a ver nunca tocou nos meus olhos.
O que me apontaram nunca estava ali: estava ali só o que ali estava.

Alberto Caeiro, in "Fragmentos"

I lie down in the long grass.
And forget how much taught me.
What I was taught never gave me more heat or more cold
What I said had never changed the form of a thing.
What I learned to do never touched my eyes.
What I pointed out was never there, there was only what was there.

Alberto Caeiro, in 'Fragments'