quero dizer-te

quero dizer-te: não morras.
Nem me digas quem és, quem foste, como sabes
a língua que se fala sobre a terra.
Ao lume lanço
toda a vontade de viver, ser vivo,
a cautela do ar, ardendo em torno.
Passarei, terás passado em mim, só quero
dizer-te: não morras nunca, agora, nunca mais.



António Franco Alexandre
Quatro Caprichos
Assírio & Alvim

NÃO GOSTO DE CONTAR OS DESASTRES EM DETALHE

NÃO GOSTO DE CONTAR OS DESASTRES EM DETALHE
mas, se quiserem, posso escrever uma lista com nomes e camas.

Sou bem capaz de molhar o pezinho na história da barbárie,
condecorar o medo,
cortar-me a mão com que limpo as feridas 
de uma civilização em queda.


Posso perfeitamente
ir afiando o gume da esperança
com a flor branca de um cancro.

Sou, em definitivo, este comediante de rua
que serve a desconhecidos,
em copos pequenos,
a medida certa da sua agonia.
Descobre sonhos
onde outros só encontram coelhos.
Hoje, por exemplo, quando tirou as luvas,
viu que lhe faltavam dedos.



Golgona Anghel

If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream---and not make dreams your master;
If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And --- which is more --- you'll be a Man, my son! 


Rudyard Kipling

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