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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 verbo no infinito
Vinicius de Moraes
Poesia
O VERBO NO INFINITO
Ser criado, gerar-se, transformar
O amor em carne e a carne em amor; nascer
Respirar, e chorar, e adormecer
E se nutrir para poder chorar
Para poder nutrir-se; e despertar
Um dia à luz e ver, ao mundo e ouvir
E começar a amar e então sorrir
E então sorrir para poder chorar.
E crescer, e saber, e ser, e haver
E perder, e sofrer, e ter horror
De ser e amar, e se sentir maldito
E esquecer tudo ao vir um novo amor
E viver esse amor até morrer
E ir conjugar o verbo no infinito...
Rio, 1960
