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Слушать(AI)Love is Essential
Love is essential.
Sex, mere accident.
Can be
Or different.
A man's not an animal:
Is a flesh intelligent,
Although sometimes ill.
Fernando Pessoa
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa (13 June 1888 – 30 November 1935) was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and phi
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Sonnet XVII
My love, and not I, is the egoist My love for thee loves itself more than thee; Ay, more than me, in whom it doth exist, And makes me live that it may feed on me
Sonnet XIX
Beauty and love let no one separate, Whom exact Nature did to each other fit, Giving to Beauty love as finishing And to Love beauty as true colour of it
Sonnet XIV
We are born at sunset and we die ere morn, And the whole darkness of the world we know, How can we guess its truth, to darkness born, The obscure consequence of absent glow
Sonnet XXII
My soul is a stiff pageant, man by man, Of some Egyptian art than Egypt older, Found in some tomb whose rite no guess can scan, Where all things else to coloured dust did moulder
