"I do not know reason to love you more than love you. What do you want to tell you more than love, If you want to tell you is that love? .................................................. ................... When you talk, it hurts me that respondas To which I say and not to my love. .................................................. ................... Ah! do not ask anything, before I speak Insomuch that, if I was deaf, You hear all the heart. If I see you do not know who I am: I love. If I fault [...] ... But you do, love, for me faltares Even though me, because questions - When should you love. If you do not love, It shows you indifferent or do not want, But thou art like nobody was For search for love is not love, And, if I search, it is as if I were only Someone to tell you who you love. .................................................. ................... When I saw you I loved you long before: Again I find you when I met you. Born to you before the world. There is no thing happy or happy hour I have had in life by That was not because I foresaw, Because You Were Sleeping her future. .................................................. ................... And I knew him only later, when I saw you, And I had the best sense to me, And my background was as a 'strada Illuminated from the front when The car turns the corner with lanterns The way and now the night is all human. .................................................. ................... When I was little, I feel I loved you as far, but far ... .................................................. ................... Love, says any thing that I feel! - I understand you do not feel well, Oh my heart outside! Fate, daughter of destiny And the laws that are in the bottom of this world! What art thou to me that I understand the point From the feel ...?"

Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) foi um dos mais importantes poetas em língua portuguesa, a figura central do Modernismo português