hoje voamos,

baixinho, nas pontas dos pés.

hoje corremos, saltamos, rodopiamos.

hoje voamos e fazemos outros voarem.

hoje voamos,

baixinho, rentinho ao chão.

hoje dançamos.

"My dearest Lady ...

I am now at a very pleasant Cottage window, looking onto a beautiful hilly country, with a glimpse of the sea; the morning is very fine. I do not know how elastic my spirit might be, what pleasure I might have in living here and breathing and wandering as free as a stag about this beautiful Coast if the remembrance of you did not weigh so upon me I have never known any unalloy'd Happiness for many days together: the death or sickness of some one has always spoilt my hours—and now when none such troubles oppress me, it is you must confess very hard that another sort of pain should haunt me.

Ask yourself my love whether you are not very cruel to have so entrammelled me, so destroyed my freedom. Will you confess this in the Letter you must write immediately, and do all you can to console me in it—make it rich as a draught of poppies to intoxicate me—write the softest words and kiss them that I may at least touch my lips where yours have been. For myself I know not how to express my devotion to so fair a form: I want a brighter word than bright, a fairer word than fair. I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days—three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain. But however selfish I may feel, I am sure I could never act selfishly: as I told you a day or two before I left Hampstead, I will never return to London if my Fate does not turn up Pam or at least a Court-card. Though I could centre my Happiness in you, I cannot expect to engross your heart so entirely—indeed if I thought you felt as much for me as I do for you at this moment I do not think I could restrain myself from seeing you again tomorrow for the delight of one embrace."

John Keats in a letter to Fanny Brawne

Ontem foram cravos,

Hoje SÃO ROSAS MEU SENHOR,

Ou creio que são rosas,

Porque de rosas não entendo nada

E de cravos tão pouco.

De pianos nem se fala,

Mas ouço-os.

Ouço-os e deslumbro-me,

Tal como me deslumbro quando ouço cravo.

Às rosas não as ouço,

Mas vejo-as.

Vejo-as e deslumbro-me,

Mesmo que não sejam rosas,

Porque de rosas não entendo nada

E de cravos tão pouco.