Lygia Fagundes Telles

thumb Lygia Fagundes da Silva Telles (née de Azevedo Fagundes; Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈliʒiɐ faˈɡũdʒis ˈtɛlis]; born and died in São Paulo, Brazil; 19 April 1918 – 3 April 2022), was a Portuguese-language writer. Quotes I think that there should be more solidarity now in our Latin America, that it should be more united not only on paper but also in the heart—so much rivalry. conversation published in Bomb Magazine (2008). Translated from Portuguese into English by Yv Maciel. I believe he (João Cabral de Melo Neto) was part of Brazil’s great poetry trinity, along with Manuel Bandeira and Carlos Drummond de Andrade. conversation (2008) He (Pedro II) liked Brazil, however, with its past of backwardness and misery. Brazil avoids looking at this past. conversation (2008) Think of something useless, and that's probably what I'll be doing. Listen, Virginia, we need to love the useless. We need to raise pigeons without a thought of eating them, plant rose bushes without expecting to pick roses, write without aiming at publication. We need to do things without expecting benefits in return. The shortest distance between two points may be a straight line, but it's in the curving paths that the best things are found. . . . We must love the useless, because there is beauty in uselessness. Ciranda de Pedra (1954 novel). Translated from the original Portuguese into English by Margaret A. Neves with the title Marble Dance (1986) External links nm0854459 Goodreads page Fagundes Telles reads from her own work (1983) Category:1918 births Category:2022 deaths Category:Short story writers from Brazil Category:Novelists from Brazil