To be great, be whole: don’t exaggerate
Or leave out any part of you.
Be complete in each thing. Put all you are
Into the least of your acts.
So too in each lake, with its lofty life,
The whole moon shines.
— Ricardo Reis, 14 February 1933
To be great, be whole: don’t exaggerate
Or leave out any part of you.
Be complete in each thing. Put all you are
Into the least of your acts.
So too in each lake, with its lofty life,
The whole moon shines.
— Ricardo Reis, 14 February 1933
Lovely.
It’s by the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa
Ricardo Reis was his pen name (among many others).