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
The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.
You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.
He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.
Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.
Humanity does not know where to go because no one is waiting for it: not even God.
I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.
Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed?
He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him.
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.
Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.
Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
We have a world for each one, but we do not have a world for all.