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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.
Poética (II)
Vinicius de Moraes
Poesia
POÉTICA (II)
Com as lágrimas do tempo
E a cal do meu dia
Eu fiz o cimento
Da minha poesia.
E na perspectiva
Da vida futura
Ergui em carne viva
Sua arquitetura.
Não sei bem se é casa
Se é torre ou se é templo:
(Um templo sem Deus)
Mas é grande e clara
Pertence ao seu tempo
— Entrai, irmãos meus!
Rio, 1960
