Last week I saw The Blue DaysA beautiful documentary directed by Laura Hojman that brings us closer to the life and poetry of Machado. The title is the last verse he wrote before dying in exile in 1939: These blue days and this childhood sunHis brother José found it in his coat pocket after his death. The verse has become a symbol of nostalgia for a lost paradise, for childhood. The color blue—of the sky, of the sea—is part of Machado's poetic voice and leads us to longing, to sadness. Perhaps the blue days are the last days of his life, bathed in the warm light of childhood.