Fernando Quotes
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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
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
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
Fernando Pessoa (himself)
— Translation: "I was what I am not."
