How Many Masks Wear We

Fernando Pessoa

Los Angeles Review of Books

2015-02-06

“In a poem from 35 Sonnets (1918), for example, he asks, “How many masks wear we, and undermasks, / Upon our countenance of soul, and when, / If for self-sport the soul itself unmasks, / Knows it the last mask off and the face plain?””


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