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
It's been a long time since I asked anything of heaven, and my arms still haven't come down.
Man goes nowhere. Everything comes to man, like tomorrow.
No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.
You know so much about me and yet you don't understand me. To know is not to understand. We could know everything and still not understand anything.
Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.
He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
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.