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Adélia Prado

  • Compared to my heart's desire / the sea is a drop.

    • Adélia Prado,
    • "Denouement," in Ellen Watson, trans., The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems of Adélia Prado ()
  • Suffering belongs to no language.

    • Adélia Prado,
    • "Denouement," in Ellen Watson, trans., The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems of Adélia Prado ()
  • Destiny doesn't exist. It's God we need, and fast.

    • Adélia Prado,
    • "Dysrhythmia," in Ellen Watson, trans., The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems of Adélia Prado ()

Adélia Prado, Brazilian poet

(1935)