Florbela Espanca

Portugal
8 Dec 1894 // 8 Dec 1930
Poet

My world is not like the world of other people, I want much more, I demand much more, there is inside me a thirst for the infinite, a constant anxiety that I do not even understand, because I am far from being a pessimist; first I am an exalted one, with an intense soul, violent, tormented, a soul that does not feel well where it is, that misses... I do not know what!

Correspondence (1930)

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