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Fernando Pessoa

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Heteronyms

Alberto Caeiro

Álvaro de Campos

Ricardo Reis

Horoscopes for the heteronyms

Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa

(Portugal, 1888 - 1935)

It is sometimes said that the four greatest Portuguese poets of modern times are Fernando Pessoa. The statement is possible since Pessoa, whose name means ‘person’ in Portuguese, had three alter egos who wrote in styles completely different from his own. In fact Pessoa wrote under dozens of names, but Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis and Álvaro de Campos were – their creator claimed – full-fledged ...

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Since we do nothing in this confused world

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Autopsychography

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Note

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Countless lives inhabit us.

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I have in me like a haze

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Oxfordshire

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I don’t know how many souls I have.

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Today someone read me St. Francis of Assisi.

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Magnificat

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Abdication

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Heteronyms

Alberto Caeiro

Álvaro de Campos

Ricardo Reis

Heteronyms

Alberto Caeiro

Álvaro de Campos

Ricardo Reis

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