Manoel Wenceslau Leite de Barros, known as Manuel de Barros, It is considered one of the most important Brazilian poets and lived to be 97 years old.
Cuiabans were born in 1916 and had their first poetry book (Poems Conceived Without Sin) published in 1937.
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Belonging to the 1945 generation and brazilian modernism, Manoel de Barros was even compared to guimaraes rosa. In 1946 Carlos Drummond de Andrade ranked Manoel de Barros as the greatest living Brazilian poet.
see below 15 phrases by Manoel de Barros!
Poetry is a place where we can still make an absurdity sensible.
The end of the sea colors the horizons.
The things that don't exist are the most beautiful.
I am my imagination and my pencil. When the pencil makes a mistake, it notices and screams for an eraser. Since I'm late for not using a computer.
I'm very selfish and narcissistic. My world is me in flesh and letters. I am what I produce and what I cannot produce. I suffer a little in that part of not being able to produce.
Poetry does not exist to communicate, but to commune.
Who walks on the rail is an iron train, I am water that runs between stones: freedom hunts way.
Nature is a force that floods like deserts.
I prefer machines that serve not to work.
I don't like to trust reason, it diminishes poetry.
Things magnified me for less.
I show off through being under the ashes. I'm always a fake pose taken in the dark. I show my back. I make nothing appear.
That the importance of something is not measured with a tape measure or with scales or barometers, etc. That the importance of something must be measured by the enchantment that the thing produces in us.
The word love is empty. There are no people inside it.
We are two. One is biological, one is literal. We are both true. One is blood. Another is words. Blood is common: eats, drinks water and even breaks glasses. The letter being likes to make images to confuse the words. And he likes to use words to untangle the images.
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