Blue dress Quote by Fernando Pessoa

““Poem of the Song About Hope" I. Give me lilies, lilies, And roses too. But if you have no lilies Or roses to give me, At least have the desire To give me lilies And roses too. The desire’s enough, Your desire, if you have it, To give me lilies And roses too, And I’ll have lilies — The best lilies — And the best roses Without receiving anything Except the gift Of your desire To give me lilies And roses too. II. The dress you’re wearing Is a memory For my heart. Someone else wore it long ago — I never saw her, But I remember. Everything in life Works by memory. Some woman moves us With a gesture that recalls our mother. Some girl makes us happy By talking like our sister. A child tears us from distraction Because we loved a woman like her When we were young, and never spoke to her. Everything’s like that, more or less. The heart moves in jolts. Living means not meeting up with yourself. At the end of it all, if I’m tired, I’ll sleep. But I’d like to meet you and for us to speak. I’m sure we’d get along well, you and I. But if we don’t meet, I’ll keep the moment In which I thought we might. I keep everything — All the letters I’m written, All the letters I’m not written, Good Lord, people keep everything whether they want to or not, And your little blue dress, my God, if I could use it To draw you to me! Well, anything can happen... You’re so young — so youthful, Ricardo Reis would say — And my vision of you explodes literarily, And I lie back on the sand and laugh like an elemental inferior Damn it, feeling’s exhausting, and life’s warm when the sun is high. Good night in Australia!””

— Fernando Pessoa