He graduated in History and Philosophy at University of Porto (Faculty of Arts), where he was colleague of Agostinho da Silva and Delfim Santos, in 1933.
In Porto he started as a high school teacher at Liceu Rodrigues de Freitas, until he was prevented from teaching by the government dictatorship in 1937.
He was arrested several times due to his political opinions adverse to the Estado Novo regime and directed anonymously the weekly Mundo Literário[1] in 1936 e 1937.
As Agostinho da Silva or Jorge de Sena, he would eventually leave to Brazil, due to his opposition to Estado Novo, which he could not accept.
Much of his poetry is dedicated to the specific historical period in which he lived, as in the poem "Europa" (1945), which was read by his friend and colleague António Pedro in Literary World at the microphones of London BBC.