The phonic and syntactic richness of Portuguese, more than the nature of its people or the flair of its authors, places its poetry among the most remarkable in world literature. As a vehicle for expressing the primitive impulse represented by poetry, its possibilities are so varied and its effects so unique that, even when worked on by ordinary hands, it sometimes achieves results worthy of sincere admiration.
Category: Notes
All Real Modern Problems…
All real modern problems, if not identical replicas of age-old problems, consist only of new nuances to problems whose debate has long been recorded in philosophy and whose consequences have been duly demonstrated by endless examples in history. Having both at disposal and rejecting them; wanting to come up with stupid solutions whose results have already been illustrated theoretically and practically, has to be classified, quite rightly, as an act of bad faith.
It Is Impressive to Note the Ever-Present Interest…
It is impressive to note the ever-present interest in contemporary literature, found even in authors who are aware that great literature is, by definition, timeless. To note that, while there are dozens of centuries that will not be absorbed, thousands of works that will not be read due to lack of time, interest in contemporary works still thrives, and contemporary works attract attention that the majority of secular works, already consecrated by the test of time, do not. How to explain why the opposite does not happen? How to explain that what is common is not an almost desperate desire to absorb the essentials of these tens of centuries and thousands of works? There seems to be no rational explanation for any of this.
An In-Depth Study of Western and Eastern Religions…
An in-depth study of Western and Eastern religions shows that, each in its own way, they lead the spirit to reflect on essential questions. If we look at several of them and get to know their very high spokespeople, the hardest thing is to decide on one or the other, rather than both and all of them. Beyond convenience, however, it seems necessary to choose so that the practice is guided and reinforced by a tradition. It may be an arbitrary choice, but it results in a compromise that is almost always enriching.