None of these interest me, none of these I desire. But I love Tagus because there is a great city on its banks. I like the sky because I see it from the fourth floor of a street in Baixa. Neither the countryside nor nature can give me something equal to the peculiar grandeur of this peaceful city, in the light of the moon, seen from Graça or São Pedro de Alcântara. There are no flowers for me like the infinite colors of Lisbon under the sun.

Bernardo Soares

The relationship of Pessoa with Lisbon is uniquely reflected in the work of the poet and his heteronyms. Pessoa, tireless and sensitive observer, follows the urban landscape, the life of the city, the life of people, all seasons, all hours of the day, in a constant assimilation of gaze and thought. The city of Lisbon becomes a poem, a narrative, a history, an inexhaustible "trunk" of human past and future destinies.
The texts that make up this book come from the "Poems of the Heteronyms" by Alberto Caeiro and Álvaro de Campos, "The Book of Disquiet" by Bernardo Soares, the correspondence of Fernando Pessoa with his beloved Ofélia, and the personal notes of the poet.