Of poetry the teenager already knew some lessons, learned in his textbooks when, in a technical school in Lisbon, he was being prepared for the trade he would have at the outset of his working life: mechanic.

• 在里斯本一所技校读书时，这位少年就已经知道了一些关于诗歌的训诫，他当时正在为充其量是一个技工的劳作生活而做着手艺上的准备。