I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities.
Interpretation
The quote expresses the beauty and physicality of words, highlighting their ability to evoke emotions and sensations.
Fernando Pessoa's quote reflects a deep appreciation for the power of language. He perceives words not merely as abstract symbols but as vivid, corporeal entities that carry sensory experiences and emotional resonance. This perspective emphasizes the artistic and evocative qualities of words, suggesting that they can draw you in and create a tangible connection to thoughts and feelings.
In practice
This quote can be used in a poetry workshop to inspire participants to appreciate the depth of language.
I have at this moment so many fundamental thoughts, so many truly metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to write any more, not to think any more, but to allow the fever of speaking to make me sleepy, and with my eyes closed, like a cat, I play with everything I could have said.
It's been months since I last wrote. I've lived in a state of mental slumber, leading the life of someone else. I've felt, very often, a vicarious happiness. I haven't existed. I've been someone else. I've lived without thinking.
We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in a substratum of mist; the false, the one we love when we live with others, the practical, the useful, the one we end up by being put in a coffin.
I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality.
My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt.
The chill of what I won't feel gnaws at my present heart.
Music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.
When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything.
In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture.
I believe black characters in fiction are still revolutionary, given our long history of erasure.
Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to me like a good evocation of writer's block.
It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.
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