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
My bits of time play with eternity.
Everything had been stripped of deceptions, that time. And that time I was afraid of everything.
Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.
Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.
I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.
Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.
Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.
When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost.
Humanity does not know where to go because no one is waiting for it: not even God.
Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed?
We have a world for each one, but we do not have a world for all.
Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.
Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him.
God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.