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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.
Duas canções de silêncio
Vinicius de Moraes
Poesia
DUAS CANÇÕES DE SILÊNCIO
I
Ouve como o silêncio
Se fez de repente
Para o nosso amor
Horizontalmente...
II
Crê apenas no amor
E em mais nada
Cala; escuta o silêncio
Que nos fala
Mais intimamente; ouve
Sossegada
O amor que despetala
O silêncio...
Deixa as palavras à poesia...
Oxford, 1939
