The Sacred Geometry of Being: Pessoa's Esoteric Imagery and the Geometry of Modernism
Pessoa Plural June 10, 2019 Patrícia Silva Mcneill
It is a known fact that throughout his life Pessoa was interested in and conversant with an array of esoteric currents and doctrines. Underpinning that interest was a marked tendency to a form of symbolic thinking encapsulated in the lines "[...] my thinking is condemned / To symbol and analogy" from a 1907 poem by the incipient heteronym Alexander Search, which recur in a fragment from 1932 of...