简介：Chora con gran soèdade
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— Cantigas de Santa Maria, XIIIth century
“My eyes are imprisoned/ Weeping with great longing”. Soèdade (saudade) — “longing” or “yearning” — is a Portuguese word that does not have a precise translation in English.
It has been described as a “…vague and constant desire for something that does not and probably cannot exist…”
