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
A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.
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.
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.
I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.
God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.
That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.
Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years.
He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with.
And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain.