Explore "35 Sonnets" by Fernando Pessoa on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Oh to be idle loving idleness! / But I am idle all in hate of me; / Ever in action's dream, in the false stress / Of purposed action never set to be.
Like a fierce beast self-penned in a bait-lair, / My will to act binds with excess my action, / Not-acting coils the thought with raged despair, / And acting rage doth paint despair distraction.