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Carlos de Oliveira

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Childhood

Dreams
as large as cedars
that must
be brought from afar
on shoulders
to find
in the winter of memory
this crackle
of a flame:
your fragrance,
firewood
of melancholy.

Infância

Sonhos
enormes como cedros
que é preciso
trazer de longe
aos ombros
para achar
no inverno da memória
este rumor
de lume:
o teu perfume,
lenha
da melancolia.

Carlos de Oliveira

(Portugal, 1921 - 1981)

The son of Portuguese emigrants to Brazil, Carlos de Oliveira was born in Belém do Pará in 1921. Two years later the family returned to Portugal, settling in a rural district northwest of Coimbra. It was in Coimbra that the writer went to high school and then on to university, graduating in History and Philosophy with a thesis titled Contribution to a Neo-Realist Aesthetics. That was in 1947, t...

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Childhood

Dreams
as large as cedars
that must
be brought from afar
on shoulders
to find
in the winter of memory
this crackle
of a flame:
your fragrance,
firewood
of melancholy.

Childhood

Dreams
as large as cedars
that must
be brought from afar
on shoulders
to find
in the winter of memory
this crackle
of a flame:
your fragrance,
firewood
of melancholy.