Antonio Porchia
Antonio Porchia was an Italian poet. He was born in Conflenti (Italy) but, after the death of his father in 1900, moved to Argentina. He wrote a Spanish book entitled Voces ("Voices"), a book of aphorisms. It has since been translated into English (by W.S. Merwin), French, and German. A very influential, yet extremely succinct writer, he has been a cult author for a number of renowned figures of contemporary literature and thought such as André Breton, Jorge Luis Borges, Roberto Juarroz and Henry Miller, amongst others. Some critics have paralleled his work to Japanese Haiku and found many similarities with a number of Zen schools of thought.
“Saber morir cuesta la vida.”
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“Pequeño es aquel que para mostrarse, esconde.”
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“Cuando tú y la verdad me hablan, no escucho a la verdad. Te escucho a tí.”
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“Tenemos un mundo para cada uno, pero no tenemos un mundo para todos.”
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“Mi padre, al irse, le regaló medio siglo a mi infancia.”
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“Y seguiré naufragando en mares ajenos hasta naufragar en mi propio mar”
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“Buscando lo que deseo voy perdiendo el deseo de lo que busco.”
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“Vengo de morirme, no de haber nacido. De haber nacido, me voy”
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“Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.”
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“Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed?”
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“I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone”
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“You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.”
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“Night is a world lit by itself.”
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“I have come one step away from everything.And here I stay, far from everything,one step away.”
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“When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.”
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“I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived.”
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“You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun.”
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“My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.”
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“Everything is a little bit of darkness, even the light.”
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“The shadows: some hide, others reveal.”
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“He who holds me by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong.”
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“Nothing is not only nothing.It is also our prison.”
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“When I am asleep I dream what I dreamwhen I am awake.It's a continuous dream.”
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“Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.”
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“When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.”
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“Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.”
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“We become aware of the void as we fill it.”
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“He who does not know how to believe, should not know.”
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“Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.”
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“He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.”
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“I know what I have given you... I do not know what you have received.”
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“I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.”
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“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”
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