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
Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.
If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.
If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.
You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide.
He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something.
Beyond my body my veins are invisible.
When I believe in nothing I do not want to meet you when you believe in nothing.
A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.
Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.
And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain.
We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.
What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.
Yes I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant.
What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.