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Psiquetipia (Ou Psicitipia)

Símbolos. Tudo símbolos
Se calhar, tudo é símbolos...
Serás tu um símbolo também?
Olho, desterrado de ti, as tuas mãos brancas
Postas, com boas maneiras inglesas, sobre a toalha da mesa.
Pessoas independentes de ti...
Olho-as: também serão símbolos?
Então todo o mundo é símbolo e magia?
Se calhar é...
E por que não há de ser?

Símbolos...
Estou cansado de pensar...
Ergo finalmente os olhos para os teus olhos que me olham.
Sorris, sabendo bem em que eu estava pensando...

Meu Deus! e não sabes...
Eu pensava nos símbolos...
Respondo fielmente à tua conversa por cima da mesa...
"It was very strange, wasn’t it?"
"A wfully strange. And how did it end?"
"Well, it didn't end. It never does, you know."
Sim, you know... Eu sei...
Sim eu sei...
É o mal dos símbolos, you know.
Yes, I know.
Conversa perfeitamente natural... Mas os símbolos?
Não tiro os olhos de tuas mãos... Quem são elas?
Meu Deus! Os símbolos... Os símbolos...

Álvaro de Campos

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Symbols. Everything's symbols...
Maybe it's all symbols...
Can you be a symbol too?

I watch, exiled from you, your two white hands
With their good English manners on the
tablecloth.
People independent of you...
I look at them: can they be symbols too?
Then the whole world is all symbol and magic?
It proplaby is...
And why shouldn't it be?

Symbols...
I'm tired of thinking...
Finally I lift my eyes to find your eyes eyeing me.
You smile knowing just what I was thinking...

My God! but you don't know...
I was thinking about symbols...
faithfully I join the conversation at the head of the
table...
"It was very strange, wasn't it?"
"Awfully strange. And how did it end?"
"Well, it didn't end. It never does, you know."
Yes, you know... I know...
Yes, I know...
That's the trouble with symbols, you know.
Yes, I know.
Perfectly natural conversation...But the symbols?
I don't take my eyes off your hands... Who are they?
My God! The symbols...The symbols...

(1933)

in «Álvaro de Campos» from Poems of Fernando Pessoa

Posted by M.P. at 8:23 pm