This week, as part of the centennial commemorations by the Cátedra Natália Correia at PBBI-, Fresno State, here is an excerpt from her published diary.

“What we need to experience is the Spirit of which Christianity, aborted by philosophism, was unable to give us the model. The Spirit, the dove that only lands on the earth purified by the flood. Unveiling this Hidden Sun so that its radiance becomes the substance of the new social order is the mission of the tragic Portuguese. That is to say, of the Western tragic who, in its limited situation, does not allow for disguises. In its dusk, it buries the rationalist drugs that anesthetize the deadly cancer in the terminal abysses of the cycle.
The joy of divination is known in the tragedy. The sphinx of that fatal Portuguese gaze with which Europe obstinately fixes the heart of the Rose is unveiled. Your Message is complete, Fernando Pessoa.

Portugal, don’t lose the Rose.”

(CORREIA, Natália (1978). Não Percas a Rosa, p.383)