Longing
Saudade - What will it be... I do not know... I tried to know it
in old and dusty dictionaries
and in other books where I didn't find the sense
of this sweet word of ambiguous profiles.
They say blue are mountains like her,
that in it distant loves are obscured,
and a good and noble friend of mine (and of the stars)
names her in a tremor of hair and hands.
Today in Eça de Queiroz without taking care I discover it,
your secret slips away, your sweetness obsesses me
like a moth with a strange and thin body
always far away - so far away! - from my quiet networks.
Longing... listen neighbor, know the meaning
of this white word that evades like a fish?
No... and her delicate trembling in my mouth trembles...
Longing...
(Pablo Neruda, in "Crepuscular" )
Did you know there is the miss day? This feeling that everyone has experienced and that poets and writers have dealt with in verse and prose received a special date on the calendar: January 30th.
In Portuguese, the word saudade has gained an almost romantic connotation, although we know that sometimes the feeling is not there very nice, after all, it's uncomfortable to miss something or someone that for some reason can't be with us side. According to the Aurélio Dictionary, nostalgia is
Feminine noun: Nostalgic and, at the same time, gentle remembrance of distant or extinct people or things, accompanied by the desire to see or possess them again; nostalgia.
Do you know the origin of the word longing? The term comes from the Latin lonely, whose meaning is loneliness. There are some myths and curiosities about the word saudade, which many believe is exclusive to the Portuguese language, but that is not quite the case. It would even be interesting if we were, in fact, holders of such a beautiful and expressive word, but the truth is that it exists in others languages, although it was considered by a British company, which heard several translators, to be the seventh hardest word to translate. This is because many words, depending on the country, culture and other factors, take on different meanings. To prove this, the word longing receives an exact term in Polish: tesknot. It also appears in the German lexicon, sehnsucht, and has practically the same value as our longing.
Fragment of a chronicle by Clarice Lispector published in Jornal do Brasil in 1968 *
To celebrate January 30, Saudade Day, we selected poems and songs that, through words, decipher this feeling that everyone has experienced once. Good reading!
Longing
if you want to understand
what is missing
You will have to know first
Feel what is wanting and what is tenderness
And have a great love to live
then you will understand
what is missing
After having lived a great love
Saudade is loneliness, melancholy,
It's nostalgia, it's remembering, living
if you want to understand
What is missing.
(Mario Palmeiro and Renato Teixeira)
Longing
In solitude in the twilight of dawn.
I saw you in the night, in the stars, in the planets,
in the seas, in the sunshine and in the evening.
I saw you yesterday, today, tomorrow...
But I didn't see you at the time.
I miss you...
(Mario Quintana)
Longing
I love everything that was
everything that is no longer
The pain that no longer hurts
the old and erroneous faith
the yesterday that the pain left
what left joy
just because it went and it flew
And today is another day.
(Fernando Pessoa)
Longing
I miss the moon shines on the pond
I miss the light that is left of the person
I miss like a lighthouse deceives the sea
imitates the sun
Longing for salt and pain that the wind brings
I miss the sound of time that resonates
I miss the gray sky the drizzle
unequal homesickness
never ends in the end
Eternal nostalgia film in theater
The home of longing is the emptiness
The chance of longing cold fire
Who runs away from nostalgia
wired
drowns in other waters
But from the same river.
(Chico César and Paulinho Moska)
*The image of Clarice Lispector was taken from the cover of the author's picture book, entitled Learning to live, by Rocco Publishing House.
By Luana Castro
Graduated in Letters
Source: Brazil School - https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/datas-comemorativas/dia-da-saudade.htm