RIP Doris Lessing (1919 - 2013)

Doris Lessing e os seus jacintos, s/a, s/d.

"I became a writer because of frustration, the way I think many writers do."  

Coisas que foram caindo em desuso

An Old Man Studying (1896), Maurycy Trebacz (1861 - 1941)

How to be a poet

I

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet.
You must depend upon
affection, reading, knowledge,
skill—more of each
than you have—inspiration,
work, growing older, patience,
for patience joins time
to eternity. Any readers
who like your poems,
doubt their judgment.

II

Breathe with unconditional breath
the unconditioned air.
Shun electric wire.
Communicate slowly. Live
a three-dimensioned life;
stay away from screens.
Stay away from anything
that obscures the place it is in.
There are no unsacred places;
there are only sacred places
and desecrated places.

III

Accept what comes from silence.
Make the best you can of it.
Of the little words that come
out of the silence, like prayers
prayed back to the one who prays,
make a poem that does not disturb
the silence from which it came.


Wendell Berry

Da sabedoria

Pallas Athena (1664), Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606 - 1669) 

"O verdadeiro sábio é aquele que assim se dispõe que os acontecimentos exteriores o alterem minimamente.

Para isso precisa couraçar-se cercando-se de realidades mais próximas de si do que os factos, e através das quais os factos, alterados para de acordo com elas, lhe chegam."

Livro do Desassossego por Bernardo Soares. Vol.II. Fernando Pessoa. Lisboa: Ática, 1982. - 418.