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
I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.
What do others think they see?
He who does not know how to believe, should not know.
Everything is a little bit of darkness, even the light.
I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.
That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years.
And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain.
Beyond my body my veins are invisible.
Yes I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant.
Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise.
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.
When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.
Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance.