What Hells And Purgatories And Heavens I

To Know How To Think With Emotions And To Feel With Intellect.

All That I've Lived I've Forgotten, As If I'd Vaguely Heard It. All That I'll Be Reminds Me Of Nothing, As If I'd Lived And Forgotten It.

I Bear The Wounds Of All The Battles I Avoided.

Inch By Inch I Conquered The Inner Terrain I Was Born With. Bit By Bit I Reclaimed The Swamp In Which I'd Languished. I Gave Birth To My Infinite Being, But I Had To Wrench Myself Out Of Me With Forceps.

My Homeland Is The Portuguese Language.