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The moonlight shining through the high branches
All the poets say is more
Than the moonlight shining through the high branches.
But to me, not knowing what I think,
What the moonlight shining through the high branches
Is, apart from being
The moonlight shining through the high branches,
Is just that,
The moonlight shining through the high branches.
by Fernando Pessoa
from The Complete Works of Alberto Caeiro
New Directions Paperbooks, 2020
translation from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa & Patricio Ferrari