All Love Letters Are Ridicolous - Fernando Pessoa

All letters of love are
Ridiculous.
They wouldn’t be love letters if they were not
Ridiculous.

In my days I too wrote letters of love,
Like others,
Ridiculous.

Love letters, if there’s love,
Have to be
Ridiculous.

But at the end
Only those who never wrote
Letters of love
Are really
Ridiculous.

I wish I were in the times
When I wrote love letters
Not thinking how
Ridiculous.

But today the truth is
My memories Of those love letters
Are the ones that are
Ridiculous.

(All the strange words,
Like the strange feelings,
Are naturally Ridiculous.)
 Alvaro de Campos - 21 October 1935

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