Antonio Porchia
Antonio Porchia
Antonio Porchiawas an Argentinian 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, a book of aphorisms. It has since been translated into Italian and into English, 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...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth13 November 1886
CountryItaly
All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out.
Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.
The dream which is not fed with dream disappears.
I began my comedy as its only actor and I come to the end as its only spectator.
The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.
You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.
He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.
Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.
Humanity does not know where to go because no one is waiting for it: not even God.
I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.
Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed?
He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.