Quote#Death
If a man can only write well when drunk, I'll tell him: get drunk.…
Quote byFernando Pessoa · 1888–1935
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Book of Disquiet, Original: Se um homem escreve bem só quando está bêbado dir-lhe-ei: embebede-se- E se ele me disser que o seu fígado sofre com isso, respondo: o que é o seu fígado? É uma coisa morta que vive enquanto você vive, e os poemas que escrever vivem sem enquanto..
English (original)
If a man can only write well when drunk, I'll tell him: get drunk. And if he tells me that his liver suffers with it, I'll answer: what's your liver? It's a dead thing that lives as long as you live, and the poems you'll write will live without a as long as.
— Fernando Pessoa
More from Fernando Pessoa
Against destiny I fulfilled my duty . Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it.
Myth is the nothing that is everything.
All beginnings are involuntary.
Começo a conhecer-me. Não existo. Sou o intervalo entre o que desejo ser e os outros me fizeram.
The Gods sell when they give. Glory is paid for with disgrace. Poor are the happy, for they are Just what passes.
Clear in thinking, and clear in feeling, and clear in wanting