Fernando Pessoa - Archives Metro - Washington, D.C.
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N 38° 53.636 W 077° 01.335
18S E 324620 N 4306949
An etched quote within an art piece.
Waymark Code: WM1C93T
Location: District of Columbia, United States
Date Posted: 07/06/2025
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Part of a larger piece, this quote is on the western (left) side of the over art piece "Ocean Piece." The etching in the marble is painted in gold.
Ocidente (The West), 1934
Fernando Pessoa
With two hands - Deed and Fate
We have unveiled in the same gesture, one
Raises the flickering and divine torch
While the other draws the veil aside.
Whether the hour was ripe or it owned
The hand that tore the Western veil,
Science was the soul and Audacity the body
Of the hand that unveiled it.
Whether the hand rose the glittering torch
Out of Fortune, Will or Tempest,
God was the soul and Portugal the body
Of the hand that bore it.
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