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Antonio Porchia [1886-1968] Italian

Rank: 101
Poet

Antonio Porchia was 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.

Hope, Alone, Love, Nature, Sad

Quote	Tags	Rank
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.	Hope	101
Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.		102
Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.		103
God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.		104
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.		105
Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.	Hope, Nature	106
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.	Love	107
Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.	Sad	108
He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.	Alone	109
That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.		110
I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.		111
What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.		112
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.		113
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.		114
He who does not know how to create should not know.		115
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.		116
If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.		117
What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.		118
I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.		119
My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.		120
He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with.		121
Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.		122
He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.		123
The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.		124
The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.		125
I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.		126
Certainties are arrived at only on foot.		201

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