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When I do think my meanest line shall
More in Time's use than my creating whole,
That future eyes more clearly shall feel
In this inked page than in my direct soul;
When I conjecture put to make me
Good readers of me in some aftertime,
Thankful to some idea of my
That doth not even my with gone true soul rime;
An anger at the essence of the world,
That makes this thus, or thinkable this wise,
Takes my soul by the throat and makes it
In nightly horrors of despaired surmise, And I become the mere sense of a rage That lacks the very words whose waste might 'suage.
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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