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Ricardo Reis


Born
in Porto, Portugal
September 19, 1887

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A heteronym of Fernando Pessoa.

"Around 1912, if I’m not mistaken (not greatly anyway), the idea came to me to write poems of a pagan nature. So I scribbled something down in irregular verse (different to the style of Álvaro de Campos, more irregular), and abandoned the idea. It was a badly woven twilight, a blurred portrait of the person who was composing it. (I hadn’t realized it yet, but that was when Ricardo Reis was born)."
Fernando Pessoa writes in his letter dated Janeiro 13th 1935 to Adolfo Casais Monteiro, that Ricardo Reis was born in 1887 (although he couldn’t recall the exact date), in Oporto. He describes him as shorter, stronger and stiffer than Caeiro, besides being clean shaven. He had had a Jesuit school education, was a doct
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“Para ser grande, sê inteiro: nada
Teu exagera ou exclui.
Sê todo em cada coisa. Põe quanto és
No mínimo que fazes.
Assim em cada coisa a Lua toda
Brilha, porque alta vive.”
Ricardo Reis

“Wise is the man who contents himself with the spectacle of the world.”
Ricardo Reis

“Se recordo quem fui, outrem me vejo,
E o passado é o presente na lembrança.
Quem fui é alguém que amo
Porém somente em sonho.
E a saudade que me aflige a mente
Não é de mim nem do passado visto,
Senão de quem habito
Por trás dos olhos cegos.
Nada, senão o instante, me conhece.
Minha mesma lembrança é nada, e sinto
Que quem sou e quem fui
São sonhos diferentes. ”
Ricardo Reis
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