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Traze o vinho, que o vinho, dizem, é
o que alegra a alma e o que, em perfeita fé,
traz o sangue de um Deus ao corpo e à alma.
Mas, seja como for, bebe e não sê.

Com seus cavalos imperiais calcando os campos
que o labor 'steve lavrando,
passa o César de aquí. Mais tarde, morto,
renasce a erva, nos campos alastrando.

Goza o Sultão de amor em quantidade.
Goza o Vizir de amor em qualidade.
Não gozo de amor nemhum.

Tragam-me vinho e gozo de ser nada em liberdade.

Uno de los más grandes creadores en lengua portuguesa. One of the greatest writers in Portuguese.
Nació en Lisboa en 1888 de una familia muy culta. He was born in Lisbon into a well educated family.
Siendo niño muere su padre y su madre se casa de When he was a child, his father died and her mother
nuevo trasladándose con sus hijos a Durban (Sudáfrica). got married again moving to Durban, South Africa,
Allí vivió el poeta desde 1896 hasta 1905, convirtiéndose with her children. He lived there from 1896 to 1905
el inglés en su segunda lengua. that is how English became his second language.
En 1895 escribe su primera poesía A mi querida mamá, In 1901, Pessoa wrote his first poem To my Dear
en 1901 escribe sus primeras poesías en inglés y viaja Mother. In 1905, he went back to Lisbon for good.
a Portugal. He read Milton, Shelley, Keats, Poe; he discovered
En 1905 regresa solo y para siempre a Lisboa de donde Baudelaire and symbolist poetry.
nunca más saldrá. In 1906, Pessoa went to Lisbon University, he did not
Lee a Milton, Shelley, Keats, Poe y descubre a finish his studies, a year later he started working as a
Baudelaire y la poesía simbolista. translator.
En 1906 se inscribe en la Universidad de Lisboa no In 1910, he took part in the Lisboan avant-garde
terminando sus estudios y, un año más tarde, atmosphere.
comienza a trabajar como traductor. He founded and wrote for several cultural magazines.
En 1910 forma parte del ambiente de la vanguardia In 1914, Pessoa started to write poems of his hete-
cultural lisboeta. ronyms Alvaro de Campos, Alberto Caeiro, Bernardo
Funda y escribe en varias revistas culturales. Soares y Ricardo Reis.
En 1914 empieza a escribir poemas de sus Only one book was published in his lifetime: Message,
126 heterónimos,Alvaro de Campos, Alberto Caeiro, 1934; the rest of his work was known after his death
in 1935.
Bernardo Soares y Ricardo Reis.
En vida sólo publicó un libro, Mensagem en 1934,
conociéndose su obra después de su muerte en 1935.