Editing Fernando Pessoa (section)

==The triumphant day==

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|[…] on 8 March 1914 – I found myself standing before a tall chest of drawers, took up a piece of paper, began to write, remaining upright all the while since I always stand when I can. I wrote thirty some poems in a row, all in a kind of ecstasy, the nature of which I shall never fathom. It was the triumphant day of my life, and I shall never have another like it. I began with a title, The Keeper of Sheep. And what followed was the appearance of someone within me to whom I promptly assigned the name of Alberto Caeiro. Please excuse the absurdity of what I am about to say, but there had appeared within me, then and there, my own master. It was my immediate sensation. So much so that, with those thirty odd poems written, I immediately took up another sheet of paper and wrote as well, in a row, the six poems that make up "Oblique Rain" by Fernando Pessoa. Immediately and totally... It was the return from Fernando Pessoa/Alberto Caeiro to Fernando Pessoa alone. Or better still, it was Fernando Pessoa's reaction to his own inexistence as Alberto Caeiro.<ref>{{citation|title="Letter to Adolfo Casais Monteiro" translation from "Imaginary poets in a real world" |first=George |last= Monteiro |date= Spring 2016 |page=301 |journal=Pessoa Plural |issue=9|url=https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Portuguese_Brazilian_Studies/ejph/pessoaplural/Issue9/Issue9Part2.pdf|access-date=2023-02-04}}</ref>
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As the heteronym Coelho Pacheco, over a long period Pessoa's "triumphant day" was taken as real, however, it has been proved that this event was one more fiction created by Pessoa.<ref>Castro, Ivo, "O corpus de 'O Guardador de Rebanhos' depositado na Biblioteca Nacional", Separata da ''Revista da Biblioteca Nacional'', vol. 2, n.º 1, 1982, pp. 47-61.</ref>