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Although Vinicius had established his public figure through poetry and popular song, he was one of the greatest prose writers of his generation. As a matter of fact, a generation where the good prose of that time was crystallized through a chronic genre extremely characterized by the style of Rio de Janeiro city.
With a large number of newspapers that circulated in the city and with a team of writers which would vary from Rubem Braga to Carlinhos de Oliveira, from Carlos Drummond de Andrade to Clarice Lispector, from Fernando Sabino to Nelson Rodrigues, Vinicius sit among them as a chronicler who transmitted to the prose, the same reasons and the same lightness of style that he presented to the public in his poems.
O mais que perfeito
Vinicius de Moraes
Poesia
O MAIS-QUE-PERFEITO
Ah, quem me dera ir-me
Contigo agora
Para um horizonte firme
(Comum, embora...)
Ah, quem me dera ir-me!
Ah, quem me dera amar-te
Sem mais ciúmes
De alguém em algum lugar
Que não presumes...
Ah, quem me dera amar-te!
Ah, quem me dera ver-te
Sempre a meu lado
Sem precisar dizer-te
Jamais: cuidado...
Ah, quem me dera ver-te!
Ah, quem me dera ter-te
Como um lugar
Plantado num chão verde
Para eu morar-te
Morar-te até morrer-te...
Montevidéu, 1/11/1958
