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 am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.
All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out.
Injury, when it is slight, upsets me; when it is strong it calms me.
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.
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.
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.
He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger.
I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.
Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.