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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.
Of God and gold
Vinicius de Moraes
Poesia
OF GOD AND GOLD
As gold breeds misery
Misery breeds light
That makes the stones glare
For the pauper’s delight.
Light is but the pauper’s gold
Stones are but rocks
That pave the way where run
God’s miserable flocks.
The world has many rocks
God has many flocks
God’s a shepherd, I was told
God is made of gold.
Rio, 1959
