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Florbela Espanca Quotes

d. 1930 Portugal

Florbela Espanca (December 8, 1894 – December 8, 1930) was a Portuguese poet. Her life, of only 36 years, was tumultuous, restless and full of intimate suffering that the author was able to transform into poetry of the highest quality, full of eroticism, femininity and pantheism.

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All of my love letters are nothing more than the realization of my need to make phrases.

The soul of a poetess is all made of light, like that of the stars: it doesn’t blind the onlooker, it illuminates...

The love I feel for you
Is so deep and runs so true
That I even love the longing
That I feel because of you.

Citações e pensamentos de Florbela Espanca (2011)

All is so calm and chaste, so like a dream.
That looking at this masterpiece of God, I ask myself
Where is there a painter, an artist so supreme, So profoundly wise as to unfurl
A canvas with a more arresting scene,
More delicate and beautiful in this World?

Juvenília (1931)

Your hands tremble as they caress and woo me...
My amber body, harmonious and young,
Is like a jasmin vine deliciously high-strung
Drunk with sunlight, with pleasure and perfume!

The Flowering Heath (1931)

What kind of magic potion
Did you give me from that jar?
That I forget who I am
But always know who you are...

Citações e Pensamentos de Florbela Espanca (2012)

I want to love, to love heedlessly!
To love for the sake of loving: Here...there...
This one, that other and everyone...
To love! To love! And love no one!
[...]
He who loves someone and says that love’s fire
Can last a lifetime is nothing but a liar!

The Flowering Heath (1931)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Florbela Espanca (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.