Fernando Pessoa, watercolour portrait

Falas de civilização, by Pessoa 📃🖋🇵🇹

from In Poemas Inconjuntos – In Poesia, Assírio e Alvim, ed. Fernando Cabral Martins, 1935, by Alberto Caeiro – heteronym of Fernando Pessoa – translated into English and Italian by Enzo Martinelli © 2021 Enzo Martinelli Falas de civilização, e de não dever ser, Ou de não dever ser assim. Dizes que todos sofrem, ou a maioria de todos, Com as cousas humanas postas desta … Continue reading Falas de civilização, by Pessoa 📃🖋🇵🇹

Fernando Pessoa, watercolour portrait

A música, sim a música, by Pessoa 📃🖋🇵🇹

from «Livro de versos». 1935, by Álvaro de Campos – heteronym of Fernando Pessoa – translated into English and Italian by Enzo Martinelli © 2021 Enzo Martinelli A música, sim a música…Piano banal do outro andar.A música em todo o caso, a música..Aquilo que vem buscar o choro imanenreDe toda a criatura humanaAquilo que vem torturar a calmaCom o desejo duma calma melhor…A música… Um … Continue reading A música, sim a música, by Pessoa 📃🖋🇵🇹

Soneto de la carta, de García Lorca ✒️📃🇪🇸

Soneto de la carta – Sonetos del amor oscuro – Federico García Lorca – 1936 – with translation into English, French and Italian by Enzo Martinelli © 2021 Enzo Martinelli Amor de mis entrañas, viva muerte,en vano espero tu palabra escritay pienso, con la flor que se marchita,que si vivo sin mí quiero perderte.El aire es inmortal, la piedra inerteni conoce la sombra ni la … Continue reading Soneto de la carta, de García Lorca ✒️📃🇪🇸

Fernando Pessoa, watercolour portrait

Ah, ser indiferente! by Pessoa 📃🖋🇵🇹

from «Livro de versos». 1935, by Álvaro de Campos – Fernando Pessoa – translated into English and Italian by Enzo Martinelli Ah! Ser indiferente!É do alto do poder da sua indiferençaQue os chefes dos chefes dominam o mundo.Ser alheio até a si mesmo!É do alto do sentir desse alheamentoQue os mestres dos santos dominam o mundo.Ser esquecido de que se existe!É do alto do pensar … Continue reading Ah, ser indiferente! by Pessoa 📃🖋🇵🇹

Federico García Lorca ✒️🇪🇸📃

Con motivo del 123° aniversario del nacimiento de Federico García Lorca, nacido el 5 de junio de 1898 El poeta más importante del grupo Generación del 27 y uno de los poetas españoles más famosos e influyentes, García Lorca también es célebre por su compromiso político en el período de agitación que condujo a la guerra civil en España. Terminó siendo una de las víctimas … Continue reading Federico García Lorca ✒️🇪🇸📃

Fernando Pessoa portrait by Almada Negreiro

When I should be asleep to mine own voice, by Pessoa 📃🖋🇵🇹

from «35 Sonnets». 1918, in Poemas Ingleses. by Fernando Pessoa – translated into Spanish and Italian by Enzo Martinelli When I should be asleep to mine own voiceIn telling thee how much thy love’s my dream,I find me listening to myself, the noiseOf my words othered in my hearing them.Yet wonder not: this is the poet’s soul.I could not tell thee well of how I … Continue reading When I should be asleep to mine own voice, by Pessoa 📃🖋🇵🇹

El poeta dice la verdad, de García Lorca ✒️📃🇪🇸

El poeta dice la verdad – Sonetos del amor oscuro – Federico García Lorca – 1936 – with translation into English and Italian by Enzo Martinelli © 2021 Enzo Martinelli Quiero llorar mi pena y te lo digopara que tú me quieras y me lloresen un anochecer de ruiseñorescon un puñal, con besos y contigo.Quiero matar al único testigopara el asesinato de mis floresy convertir … Continue reading El poeta dice la verdad, de García Lorca ✒️📃🇪🇸

When I do think my meanest line shall be, by Pessoa 📃🖋🇵🇹

from «35 Sonnets». 1918, in Poemas Ingleses. by Fernando Pessoa – translated into Spanish ans Italian by Enzo Martinelli When I do think my meanest line shall beMore in Time’s use than my creating whole,That future eyes more clearly shall feel meIn this inked page than in my direct soul;When I conjecture put to make me seeingGood readers of me in some aftertime,Thankful to some … Continue reading When I do think my meanest line shall be, by Pessoa 📃🖋🇵🇹

This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful, by Walt Whitman 🌿🖋📖

This post presents three new verse translations of Walt Whitman’s lyric poem “This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful” (1860), from Leaves of Grass — Calamus, rendered into Italian, Spanish, and French. Each translation, curated by Enzo Martinelli, attends closely to Whitman’s elegiac tone and his meditation on distant peoples and shared humanity, offering readers a comparative view of the poem across three Romance languages. Continue reading This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful, by Walt Whitman 🌿🖋📖