Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (November 6, 1919 – July 2, 2004) was an award-winning Portuguese poet and writer.

Quotes

 * Lisbon, that name of being and non-being With its secret meanders of amazement, insomnia, and tin shacks And secret glitter of something theatrical Its conniving smile of intrigue and masks While the wide ocean dilates west Lisbon rocking like a great boat Lisbon cruelly built along its own absence
 * "Lisbon", in Marine Rose: Selected Poems (1988), trans. Ruth Fainlight, p. 59.

O Nome das Coisas (1977)
O dia inicial inteiro e limpo Onde emergimos da noite e do silêncio E livres habitamos a substância do tempo'' The new day clean and whole When we emerge from night and silence To freely inhabit the substance of time
 * ''Esta é a madrugada que eu esperava
 * This is the dawn I waited for
 * "25 de Abril" ("25th April 1974"), in Log Book: Selected Poems, trans. ‎Richard Zenith (Carcanet, 1997), p. 78