“Every born man is a being who has lost the world.
When the astonishment of this unknown reaches the highest degree, the creative act of thought is realized, indistinctly poetry and philosophy.
The separation occurs when, through philosophical concentration, man
participates in a historically conventional reality from which he awaits his revelation.
While the poet, imagining the world he hopes to recover, already translates
the world realized by the imagination. From then on, the poet’s
lost world is temporal and concrete because poetry is nature, whereas the intellectual
while intellectualist’s recovery is timeless and abstract. After all, each answer
constitutes a new question.” (in CORREIA; Natália (1958). Poetry of Art and Poetic Realism. Lisbon: ed. by the author: 5-6).

Translated by DIniz Borges – Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures-California State University, Fresno

The Cátedra Natália Correia thanks Poet Angela Almeida for her work and research on Natália Correia and for facilitating this original work to Fresno State.

This salute to Natália Correia was sponsored by Luso Financial.