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Fernando Pessoa was the apostle of an antidemocratic and elitist nationalism. A mystical nationalism was perhaps the only element of ideological coherence in his work. He was always marked by the radicality of his ideological and political attitudes.
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Fernando Pessoa is the slave of the intelligence but not of reason. He is an intellectual being, because in him the intelligence governs the senses...


— Ronald W. Sousa, in The rediscoverers, major writers in the Portuguese literature of national regeneration (1981), p. 137

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Fernando Pessoa is the most extraordinary poet of Orpheu and the most astonishing poetic phenomenon of this century.


— Alex Preminger, Terry V. F. Brogan, The New Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics (1993), p. 971

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Fernando Pessoa is the greatest Portuguese poet since Camões, and one of the most complex and astonishing figures of 20th-century literature.


— Lesley Henderson, Sarah M. Hall, Reference guide to world literature, Vol. 2 (1995), p. 928

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Fernando Pessoa (himself)


— Translation: "I was what I am not."

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