Antinous Quotes

“Now he is something anyone can be.”
― Fernando Pessoa, Antinous: A Poem

“Sometimes he was adorned or made to don
Half-vestures then in statued nudity
Did imitate some god that seems to be
By marble's accurate virtue men's again.”
― Fernando Pessoa, Antinous: A Poem

“Bog, kom se služilo poljupcima, mrtav je sada!”
― Fernando Pessoa, Antinous: A Poem

“The god is dead whose cult was to be kissed!”
― Fernando Pessoa, Antinous: A Poem

“Ali pod usnom led ipak znači: umro je mili.”
― Fernando Pessoa, Antinous: A Poem

“Then his lips cease on the other lips cold sloth.”
― Fernando Pessoa, Antinous: A Poem

“Uzeo ga, pa vratio, Nil veliki, večni.”
― Fernando Pessoa, Antinous: A Poem

“Now the Nile gave him up, the eternal Nile.”
― Fernando Pessoa, Antinous: A Poem

“Divan beše moj ljubljeni, a melanholičan.”
― Fernando Pessoa, Antinous: A Poem

“Beautiful was my love, yet melancholy.”
― Fernando Pessoa, Antinous: A Poem

“Antinoj je mrtav - mrtav doveka,
umro je i za njim sve ljubavi tuže.
Venera, što ljubljaše Adonisa, čoveka,
u njem' rođenje i smrt dragog pozna
te se njen jad i bol Hadrijanov združe
kao tuga grozna.”
― Fernando Pessoa, Antinous: A Poem

“Antinous is dead, is dead for ever,
Is dead for ever and all loves lament
Venus herself, that was Adonis lover,
Seeing him, that newly lived, now dead again,
Lends her old grief's renewal to be blent
With Hadrian's pain.”
― Fernando Pessoa, Antinous: A Poem