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
When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost.
If only I could leave everything as it is, without moving a single star or a single cloud. Oh, if only I could!
When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.
When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.
A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.
Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.
Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.
More grievous than tears is the sight of them.
I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.
I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone.
A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.
Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.
He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger.