Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (November 6, 1919 – July 2, 2004) was an award-winning Portuguese poet and writer.

Quotes

O Nome das Coisas (1977)

This is the dawn I waited for
The new day clean and whole
When we emerge from night and silence
To freely inhabit the substance of time

• Esta é a madrugada que eu esperava
  O dia inicial inteiro e limpo
  Onde emergimos da noite e do silêncio
  E livres habitamos a substância do tempo
  • This is the dawn I waited for
    The new day clean and whole
    When we emerge from night and silence
    To freely inhabit the substance of time
  • "25 de Abril" ("25th April 1974"), in Log Book: Selected Poems, trans. ‎Richard Zenith (Carcanet, 1997), p. 78

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen on Wikipedia
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• Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen at Poetry International Web