All love letters are Ridiculous
by Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa.
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All love letters are
Ridiculous.
They would not be love letters if they were not
Ridiculous.I too, in my time, wrote
Love letters,
Like the others,
Ridiculous.Love letters, if there is love,
Must be
Ridiculous.But, after all,
Only those who have never written
Love letters
Are truly
Ridiculous. -
I wish for the time when I wrote,
Without even noticing,
Ridiculous
Love letters.The truth is that today
My memories
Of those love letters
Are what is
Ridiculous.All extravagant words,
Like extravagant feelings,
Are naturally
Ridiculous.Álvaro de Campos (Fernando Pessoa), 1935
