Fernando Pessoa
Science describes things as they are;
Science describes things as they are; art as they are felt, as they are felt to be.
The essential thing in art is to express; what is expressed does not matter.
1909?
Páginas de Estética e de Teoria Literárias. Fernando Pessoa. (Textos estabelecidos e prefaciados por Georg Rudolf Lind e Jacinto do Prado Coelho.) Lisboa: Ática, 1966.
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