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Published by Silveira on 2017-12-12

is a Fearful Thing

‘Tis a fearful thing
to love what death can touch.

A fearful thing
to love, to hope, to dream, to be –

to be,
And oh, to lose.

A thing for fools, this,

And a holy thing,

a holy thing
to love.

For your life has lived in me,
your laugh once lifted me,
your word was gift to me.

To remember this brings painful joy.

‘Tis a human thing, love,
a holy thing, to love
what death has touched.

Yehuda HaLevi

A poesia está guardada nas palavras

Published by Silveira on 2014-08-08

“A poesia está guardada nas palavras – é tudo que eu sei.
Meu fado é o de não saber quase tudo.
Sobre o nada eu tenho profundidades.
Não tenho conexões com a realidade.
Poderoso para mim não é aquele que descobre ouro.
Para mim poderoso é aquele que descobre as insignificâncias (do mundo e as nossas).
Por essa pequena sentença me elogiaram de imbecil.
Fiquei emocionado e chorei.
Sou fraco para elogios.”

Tratado geral das grandezas do ínfimo, Manoel de Barros

Published by Silveira on 2014-08-05

“The obsolescence of an implementation must be measured against other existing implementations, not against unrealized concepts.” The Mythical Man-month – Essays on Software Engineering. Freederick P. Brooks, Jr.

Published by Silveira on 2014-06-27

“Baste a quem baste o que lhe basta
O bastante de lhe bastar!
A vida é breve, a alma é vasta;
Ter é tardar.”

Fernando Pessoa

Published by Silveira on 2014-01-07

“and I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are impostors, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them they are apt to be deceptive-in geometry, and in other things too” Socrates, in Phaedo by Plato. 399 BC.