Frases de Luís de Camões
Luís de Camões
Fecha de nacimiento: 1524
Fecha de muerte: 10. Junio 1580
Luís Vaz de Camões o Camoens fue un escritor y poeta portugués, generalmente considerado como uno de los mayores poetas en lengua portuguesa; también escribió algunos sonetos en castellano.
Frases Luís de Camões
„Los buenos siempre vi pasar
severos castigos en el mundo,
Y para mí lo más sorprendente
Los malos vi siempre nadar
Por mar de contentamientos.“
— Luís de Camões
Fuente: Poesia "Esparsa ao desconcerto do mundo".
„Love is a fire that burns unseen“
— Luís de Camões, libro Rhythmas de Lvis de Camoes
Lyric poetry, Não pode tirar-me as esperanças, Amor é fogo que arde sem se ver, Context: Love is a fire that burns unseen,
A wound that aches yet isn't felt,
An always discontent contentment,
A pain that rages without hurting,A longing for nothing but to long,
A loneliness in the midst of people,
A never feeling pleased when pleased,
A passion that gains when lost in thought.It's being enslaved of your own free will;
It's counting your defeat a victory;
It's staying loyal to your killer.But if it's so self-contradictory,
How can Love, when Love chooses,
Bring human hearts into sympathy?
Rimas, Sonnet 81 (as translated by Richard Zenith)<!-- http://portugal.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=8436-->
„Better deserve them, and to go without;
Than have them undeserved“
— Luís de Camões
Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto IX, Context: For these vain honours, this false gold, give price
(Unless he have it in himself) to none,
Better deserve them, and to go without;
Than have them undeserved, without doubt.
Stanza 93, lines 5–8 (tr. Richard Fanshawe)
„The more I pay you, the more I owe.“
— Luís de Camões
Lyric poetry, Não pode tirar-me as esperanças, Quem vê, Senhora, claro e manifesto, Context: Since it gives me so much bliss
to give you everything I can
The more I pay you, the more I owe.
Quoted by Elizabeth Bishop in the dedication of Questions of Travel (1965) to Lota de Macedo Soares, her Brazilian lover.
„For, though in science much contained be,
In special cases practice more doth see.“
— Luís de Camões
Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto X, Context: Great Sir, let never the astonished Gall
The English, German, and Italian,
Have cause to say, the fainting Portugal
Could not advance the great work he began.
Let your advisers be experienced all,
Such as have seen the world, and studied man.
For, though in science much contained be,
In special cases practice more doth see.
Stanza 152 (tr. Richard Fanshawe); the poet advising King Sebastian of Portugal, then eighteen years of age.
„Time changes, and our desires change.“
— Luís de Camões
Lyric poetry, Não pode tirar-me as esperanças, Mudam-se os tempos, mudam-se as vontades, Context: Time changes, and our desires change. What we
believe—even what we are—is ever-
changing. The world is change, which forever
takes on new qualities.
Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition (2008), ed. William Baer, p. 70
„O glory of commanding! O vain thirst
Of that same empty nothing we call fame!“
— Luís de Camões
Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto IV, Context: But an old man of venerable look
(Standing upon the shore amongst the crowds)
His eyes fixed upon us (on ship-board), shook
His head three times, overcast with sorrow's clouds:
And (straining his voice more, than well could brook
His aged lungs: it rattled in our shrouds)
Out of a science, practice did attest,
Let fly these words from an oraculous breast:O glory of commanding! O vain thirst
Of that same empty nothing we call fame!
Stanzas 94–95 (tr. Richard Fanshawe); the Old Man of Restelo.
„I spoke, when rising through the darkened air,
Appalled, we saw a hideous phantom glare“
— Luís de Camões
Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto V, Context: I spoke, when rising through the darkened air,
Appalled, we saw a hideous phantom glare;
High and enormous over the flood he towered,
And thwart our way with sullen aspect lowered.
An earthy paleness over his cheeks was spread,
Erect uprose his hairs of withered red;
Writhing to speak, his sable lips disclose,
Sharp and disjoined, his gnashing teeth's blue rows;
His haggard beard flowed quivering on the wind,
Revenge and horror in his mien combined;
His clouded front, by withering lightnings scared,
The inward anguish of his soul declared.
His red eyes, glowing from their dusky caves,
Shot livid fires: far echoing over the waves
His voice resounded, as the caverned shore
With hollow groan repeats the tempest's roar.
Cold gliding horrors thrilled each hero's breast,
Our bristling hair and tottering knees confessed
Wild dread, the while with visage ghastly wan,
His black lips trembling, thus the fiend began...
Stanzas 39–40 (tr. William Julius Mickle); description of Adamastor, the "Spirit of the Cape".
„The lover becomes the thing he loves“
— Luís de Camões
Lyric poetry, Não pode tirar-me as esperanças, Transforma-se o amador na cousa amada, Context: The lover becomes the thing he loves
By virtue of much imagining;
Since what I long for is already in me,
The act of longing should be enough.
„Go, gentle spirit! now supremely blest“
— Luís de Camões
Lyric poetry, Não pode tirar-me as esperanças, Alma Minha Gentil, que te Partiste, Context: Go, gentle spirit! now supremely blest,
From scenes of pain and struggling virtue go:
From thy immortal seat of heavenly rest
Behold us lingering in a world of woe!
(anonymous translation)
Meek spirit, who so early didst depart,
Thou art at rest in Heaven! I linger here,
And feed the lonely anguish of my heart;
Thinking of all that made existence dear.
(tr. Robert Southey)
My gentle spirit! thou who hast departed
So early, of this life in discontent,
Rest thou there ever, in Heaven's firmament,
While I live here on earth all broken-hearted.
tr. John James Aubertin, in Seventy Sonnets of Camoens (1881), p. 17
Dear gentle soul, you that departed
this life so soon and reluctantly,
rest in heaven eternally
while I remain here, broken-hearted.
tr. Langed White, in The Collected Lyric Poems of Luis de Camoes (2016), p. 357
„O piteous lot of man's uncertain state!
What woes on Life's unhappy journey wait!“
— Luís de Camões
Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto I, Ó grandes e gravíssimos perigos!
Ó caminho de vida nunca certo!
Stanza 105, lines 1–2 (tr. William Julius Mickle)
„My pen in this, my sword in that hand hold.“
— Luís de Camões
Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto VII, Numa mão sempre a espada, e noutra a pena.
Stanza 79, line 8 (tr. Richard Fanshawe)
„A sad event and worthy of Memory,
Who draws forth men from their (closed) sepulchres,
Befell that piteous maid, and pitiful
Who, after she was dead was (crowned) queen.“
— Luís de Camões
Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto III, O caso triste, e dino da memória,
Que do sepulcro os homens desenterra,
Aconteceu da mísera e mesquinha
Que depois de ser morta foi Rainha.
Stanza 118, lines 5–8 (tr. Ezra Pound); of Inês de Castro.
„He spoke, and deep a lengthened sigh he drew,
A doleful sound, and vanished from the view:
The frightened billows gave a rolling swell,
And, distant far, prolonged the dismal yell;
Faint and more faint the howling echoes die,
And the black cloud dispersing leaves the sky.“
— Luís de Camões
Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto V, Stanza 60, lines 1–4 (tr. William Julius Mickle)-->
„O, how I choke in uttering my disgrace!
Thinking I her embraced whom I did seek,
A mountain hard I found I did embrace.
Overgrown with trees and bushes nothing sleek.
Thus (grappling with a mountain face to face,
Which I stood pressing for her angel's cheek)
I was no man: no but a stupid block
And grew unto a rock another rock.“
— Luís de Camões
Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto V, Stanza 56 (tr. Richard Fanshawe); spoken by Adamastor.
„You saw, with what unheard of insolence
The highest heavens they did invade of yore:
You saw, how (against reason, against sense)
They did invade the sea with sail and oar:
Actions so proud, so daring, so immense,
You saw; and we see daily more, and more:
That in few years (I fear) of heaven and sea,
Men, will be called gods; and but men, we.“
— Luís de Camões
Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto VI, Vistes que, com grandíssima ousadia,
Foram já cometer o Céu supremo;
Vistes aquela insana fantasia
De tentarem o mar com vela e remo;
Vistes, e ainda vemos cada dia,
Soberbas e insolências tais, que temo
Que do Mar e do Céu, em poucos anos,
Venham Deuses a ser, e nós, humanos.
Stanza 29 (tr. Richard Fanshawe); council of the sea gods.
