"Caeiro [Fernando Pessoa] unterläuft die Unterscheidung zwischen dem Schein und dem, was etwa "Denkergedanken" hinter ihm ausmachen wollen. Die Dinge, wie er sie sieht, sind als was sie scheinen. Sein Pan-Deismus basiert auf einer Ding-Metaphysik, die in der modernen Dichtung des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts noch Schule machen sollte."
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