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 your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.
A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.
Everything is a little bit of darkness, even the light.
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.
Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.
A large heart can be filled with very little.
A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.
Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.
When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost.
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.
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.
Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.