Bringing together Amilcar de Castro and João Cabral de Melo Neto, who never met, although contemporaries and who shared tastes in art, is to correct a project that History forgot to finish. One of the aspects that bring João Cabral closer to Amilcar de Castro is the privilege of the visual in his poetry, which takes the words because of their materiality of pen on paper. Amilcar, in turn, explores the metalanguage of sculpture, bringing to the fore aspects such as weight and achievement of the third dimension. The comparative method, which is the very technique of Cabralian similes, helps us to match the constructive project present in both, but which in Amilcar adopts the peculiarities of neo-concrete rupture. Finally, the phenomenological approach leads us to discover in the fold - literal in Amilcar and in the form of an inner dismantling of the word` in Cabral - the fundamental contribution for the shared project of perverting human perception. To promote such a meeting between this sculptor and this poet is, first and foremost, and ignoring the notorious differences, to assert the similarities that the hairsplitting Cabral, critic of the museum of everything and everyone, failed to make.