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I believe he (João Cabral de Melo Neto) was part of Brazil’s great poetry trinity, along with Manuel Bandeira and Carlos Drummond de Andrade.

— Lygia Fagundes Telles conversation (2008)

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I think that there should be more solidarity now in our Latin America, that it should be more united not only on paper but also in the heart—so much rivalry.

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He (Pedro II) liked Brazil, however, with its past of backwardness and misery. Brazil avoids looking at this past.

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