While reading my library book of poety by Fernado Pessoa I came across these two quotes in the introduction. I'll put them down here, as if this blog were my little notebook.

Psychoanlysis is too poor a science to explain the case of Pessoa, who seems to have been, simply, mysteriously, possessed by a demon -- that of detachment.

And:

Though Pessoa wrote excellent English for a foreigner, it lacked the organic fiber and carnal weight of what is so aptly known as a mother tongue.

I love that last phrase. How many of us can actually use our mother tongue with 'organic fiber and carnal weight?'