untitled poem 1 by Fernando Pessoa

  • To be great, be whole: don’t exaggerate
  • Or leave out any part of you.
  • Be complete in each thing. Put all of you
  • Into the least of your acts.
  • So too in each lake, with its lofty life,
  • The whole moon shines.

translated by Richard Zenith

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