He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with.
About Antonio Porchia
Antonio Porchiawas an Argentine poet.
Porchia was born in Conflenti, Italy, but, after the death of his father in 1900, moved to Argentina.
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You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
Italian Argentinian poet
God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.
Italian Argentinian poet
The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.
Italian Argentinian poet
I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.
Italian Argentinian poet
My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
Italian Argentinian poet
Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
Italian Argentinian poet
Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.
Italian Argentinian poet
Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
Italian Argentinian poet
What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.
Italian Argentinian poet
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
Italian Argentinian poet
I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.
Italian Argentinian poet
He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
Italian Argentinian poet
The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.
Italian Argentinian poet
I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.
Italian Argentinian poet
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
Italian Argentinian poet
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.
Italian Argentinian poet
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
Italian Argentinian poet
Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
Italian Argentinian poet
What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.
Italian Argentinian poet
He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with.
Italian Argentinian poet
He who does not know how to create should not know.
Italian Argentinian poet
That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
Italian Argentinian poet
He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.
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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.
Italian Argentinian poet
Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.
Italian Argentinian poet
Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.
Italian Argentinian poet
If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.
Italian Argentinian poet