ALL LETTERS OF LOVE: Poetry, by Fernando Pessoa

ALL LETTERS OF LOVE

All love letters are ridiculous. Would not be love letters if they were not ridiculous. I also wrote in my time love letters, like the others, ridiculous. Love letters, if there is love, must be ridiculous. But after all, only those who have never written love letters are ridiculous. I wish it were still the time when I wrote, without realizing it, love letters ridiculous. The truth is that today are my memories of those letters to be ridiculous. All proparoxytone words, like all feelings slippery, they are of course ridiculous.

(Fernando Pessoa)

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