Antonio Porchia Quotes
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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. 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, Don Paterson, Roberto Juarroz and Henry Miller, amongst others. Some critics have paralleled his work to Japanese haiku and found many similarities with a number of Zen schools of thought. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. November 1885 – 9. November 1968
Antonio Porchia: 276 quotes17 likes

Antonio Porchia Quotes

“A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.”

Antonio Porchia

Se me abre una puerta, entro y me hallo con cien puertas cerradas.
Voces (1943)

“I know that I went from the brief before to the eternal afterward of everything, but I do not know how.”

Antonio Porchia

Sé que anduve de lo antes breve a lo después eterno de todas las cosas, pero no sé cómo.
Voces (1943)

“If you don’t have to change routes, why should you change guides?”

Antonio Porchia

Si no has de cambiar de ruta, ¿por qué has de cambiar de guía?
Voces (1943)

“A hundred years die in a moment, just as a moment dies in a moment.”

Antonio Porchia

Mueren cien años en un instante, lo mismo que un instante en un instante.
Voces (1943)

“When I break any of the chains that bind me, I feel that I make myself smaller.”

Antonio Porchia

Cuando rompo algunas de las cadenas que me encadenan, siento que me disminuyo.
Voces (1943)
Variant: When I break any of the chains that bind me, I feel that I make myself smaller.

“Nothing ends without breaking, because everything is endless.”

Antonio Porchia

Nada termina sin romperse, porque todo es sin fin.
Voces (1943)

“When I believe in nothing, I do not want to meet you when you believe in nothing.”

Antonio Porchia

Cuando no creo en nada, no quisiera encontrarme contigo, cuando no crees en nada.
Voces (1943)

“I hold up what I know with what I do not know.”

Antonio Porchia

Lo que sé lo soporto con lo que no sé.
Voces (1943)

“If I were to give you life, what else could I give you?”

Antonio Porchia

Si yo diera la vida, ¿qué podría darte?
Voces (1943)

“Near me, nothing but distances.”

Antonio Porchia

Cerca de mí no hay más que lejanías.
Voces (1943)

“In the eternal dream, eternity is the same as an instant. Maybe I will come back in an instant.”

Antonio Porchia

En el sueño eterno, la eternidad es lo mismo que un instante. Quizá yo vuelva dentro de un instante.
Voces (1943)

“To the best of refuges I prefer their doorways.”

Antonio Porchia

Prefiero al mejor de los refugios las puertas de cualquier refugio.
Voces (1943)

“Everything is nothing, but afterwards. After having suffered everything.”

Antonio Porchia

Todo es nada, pero después, Después de haberlo sufrido todo.
Voces (1943)

“It is when I assent to nothing that I assent to all.”

Antonio Porchia

Cuando me conformo con nada es cuando me conformo de todo.
Voces (1943)

“Love, when it fits inside a flower, is infinite.”

Antonio Porchia

Voces (1943)

“Your hurt is so great that it shouldn’t hurt you.”
Tu dolor es tan grande que no debiera dolerte.

Antonio Porchia

Voces (1943)

“You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.”

Antonio Porchia

No vez el río de llanto porque la falta una lágrima tuya.
Voces (1943)

“Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist.”

Antonio Porchia

Sin esa tonta vanidad que es el mostrarnos y que es de todos y de todo, no veríamos nada y no existiría nada. [[]]
Voces (1943)

“No, I won’t come in. Because if I come in no one will be there.”

Antonio Porchia

No, no entro. Porque si entro no hay nadie.
Voces (1943)

“You’ll find the distance that separates you from them, by joining them.”

Antonio Porchia

You will find the distance that separates you from them by joining them.
Voces (1943)

“He is small who hides in order to show himself.”

Antonio Porchia

Pequeño es aquel que para mostrarse esconde.
Voces (1943)

“From my silence, only my voice is missing.”

Antonio Porchia

En mi silencio sólo falta mi voz.
Voces (1943)

“Being someone is being one alone. Being someone is loneliness.”

Antonio Porchia

Ser alguien es ser alguien solo. Ser alguien es soledad.
Voces (1943)

“When I look for my existence, I do not look for it in myself.”

Antonio Porchia

Cuando busco mi existencia, no la busco en mí.
Voces (1943)

“When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.”

Antonio Porchia

Donde se lamentan todos, no se oyen lamentos.
Voces (1943)

“They’ll say you’re walking down the wrong path, if you’re walking down your path.”

Antonio Porchia

Dirán que andas por un camino equivocado, si andas por tu camino.
Voces (1943)

“My bits of time play with eternity.”

Antonio Porchia

Mis partículas de tiempo juegan con la eternidad.
Voces (1943)

“I tell myself the real “it’s fine” on the ground, having fallen.”

Antonio Porchia

El verdadero “está bien” me lo digo en el suelo, caído.
Voces (1943)

“I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.”

Antonio Porchia

Te quireo como eres, pero no me digas cómo eres.
Voces (1943)

“If I forgot what I have not been, I would forget myself.”

Antonio Porchia

Si me olvidase de lo que no he sido, me olvidaría de mí.
Voces (1943)

“Even flowers, to exhale their perfume, must die a little.”

Antonio Porchia

Hasta las flores, para emanar sus perfumes, han menester morirse un poco.
Voces (1943)

“Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him.”

Antonio Porchia

El hombre habla de todo y habla de todo como si el conocimiento de todo estuviese todo en él.
Voces (1943)

“Yes, this is what is good: to forgive evil. There is no other good.”

Antonio Porchia

Sí, eso es el bien: perdonar el mal. No hay etro bien.
Voces (1943)

“If we didn't lose anything during life, we would lose life without anything.”

Antonio Porchia

Si nada se nos fuera durante la vida, se nos iría la vida sin nada.
Voces (1943)

“The important and the unimportant are the same only at the start.”

Antonio Porchia

Lo importante y lo no importante no son iguales sólo en sus comienzos.
Voces (1943)

“If you climb up step by step, you’ll always find yourself level with a step.”

Antonio Porchia

Quien asciende peldaño a peldaño, se halla siempre a la altura de un peldaño.
Voces (1943)

“Located in some distant nebula I do what I do so that the universal balance I’m a part of won’t lose its balance.”

Antonio Porchia

Situado en alguna nebulosa lejana hago lo que hago, para que el equilibrio universal de que soy parte no pierda el equilibrio.
Voces (1943)

“When one does not love the impossible, one does not love anything.”

Antonio Porchia

Cuando no se quiere lo imposible, no se quiere.
Voces (1943)

“What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.”

Antonio Porchia

Lo que dicen las palabras no dura. Duran las palabres. Porque las palabras son siempre las mismas y lo que dicen no es nunca lo mismo.
Voces (1943)

“We see by means of something which illumines us, which we do not see.”

Antonio Porchia

Vemos por algo que nos ilumina; por algo que no vemos.
Voces (1943)

“My self has been moving away from me. Today it is my farthest you.”

Antonio Porchia

Mi yo ha ido alejándose de mí. Hoy es mi más lejano tú.
Voces (1943)

“One who walks from fire to fire dies from the cold.”

Antonio Porchia

Voces (1943)

“Words that they said to me at other times, I hear now.”

Antonio Porchia

Palabras que me dijeron en otros tiempos, las oigo hoy.
Voces (1943)

“All that I have lost I find at every step and remember that I have lost it.”

Antonio Porchia

Cuanto he perdido lo hallo a cada paso y me recuerda que lo he perdido.
Voces (1943)

“The chains that bind us most closely are the ones we have broken.”

Antonio Porchia

Las cadenas que más nos encadenan son las cadenas que hemos roto.
Voces (1943)

“When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.”

Antonio Porchia

Cuando yo muera, no me veré morir, por primera vez.
Voces (1943)

“The confession of one humbles all.”

Antonio Porchia

La confesión de uno humilla a todos.
Voces (1943)

“Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.”

Antonio Porchia

La verdad tiene muy pocos amigos y los muy pocos amigos que tiene son suicidas.
Voces (1943)