[BNP/E3, 49A3 – 7-7a]
11-6-12
Thought was born blind, but thought knows what is seeing.
A darkened sense of forms, of what forms are
Lights up its sense of its[1] blindness, and prior being
To dreams of sight that stirs his blind-man’s care.
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It moves its fingers over the form of things
And for features ekes a tract[2] of motion
Of what they are, half-eye’s[3] imaginings
That fill sight’s void with seeing-thought’s emotion
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Sometimes its blind eyes sun-struck[4]
(Kneel to the thought; oh soul!) dream that thy see
To some untouched contour imagined far. I. 4.
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That some lost sense, dark touch’s light wings, II, 3.
[7v]
Camilo Pessanha
Tatuagens opulentas do meu peito:
— Quimeras, grifos, leões alados...
Mais – entre corações engrinaldados,
Um envolto e soberbo amor-perfeito...
E o meu brasão: Tem doiro num quartel
Vermelho um lis. No outro uma Donzela
Em campo azul, de prata o corpo aquela
Que é no meu braço como que um broquel.
Timbre; rompante, a megalomania...
Divisa: um ai que insiste noite e dia
Lembrando ruínas, sepulturas rasas...
Entre castelos serpes batalhantes,
Águias de negro, desfraldando as azas,
Sob que realça o oiro dos besantes!
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[7ar]
Now have the strike regret to disappear
Recalling joy’s joy
Not its being – but its mien
3
Alas, all this is useless, for joy’s in
Enjoying not in thinking of enjoying
In the reflected thought its reflection doth seem
Against life by mere reflecting
Yet the more thought we take even to prove
We must not think, doth further for joy move
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3
We see the light is wider, yet light none,
And, asking none the more can be the less,
On that desk we seek an invisible shore
That shall explain by light the lightness.
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Livro de Fidelino
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[7av]
Thought knows things can be seen, it knows its night
As darkness, whence
(Kneel to the thought, oh soul!)
Then comes an inner sense of sight
{…} a vision of vision
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And in the isle of light in all night
|Sees not but sees seeing[5].|
Its idea-seeing[6] sees not things but sight.
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1.(2) Whence knows it what is seeing? None can tell.
Had it, before it knew that round ’t was woke, blind, unto being) being.
Some night ere it grew blind,
Inherit from seeing parents a {…} of seeing?
And though the idea of light hidden in all night
Thought’s thought of seeing sees not things but sight.
[1] its /its\
[2] tract /brink\
[3] half-eye’s /eyeing\
[4] blind eyes sun-struck /blindness stares on the warm glee (?)\
[5] seeing /sight\
[6] idea-/thought of\ seeing
