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

“Man goes nowhere, everything comes to man like tomorrow.”

Antonio Porchia

El hombre no va a ninguna parte. Todo viene al hombre, como el mañana.
Voces (1943)

“When I see myself, I wonder: what do others try to see in themselves?”

Antonio Porchia

Viéndome, me pregunto: ¿qué pretenden verse los demás?
Voces (1943)

“Almost always is it a the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.”

Antonio Porchia

Casi siempre es el miedo de ser nosotros lo que nos lleva delante del espejo.
Voces (1943)

“I live, to get out of what I live through.”

Antonio Porchia

Voces (1943)

“Not everyone does evil, but everyone stands accused.”

Antonio Porchia

El mal no lo hacen todos, pero acusa a todos.
Voces (1943)

“After all this running away from finished things, I ran into myself as a finished thing. And I’m still running away from finished things.”

Antonio Porchia

Después de tanto huir de las cosas hechas, me he encontrado yo mismo una cosa hecha. Y sigo huyendo de las cosas hechas.
Voces (1943)

“Everything that changes, where it changes, leaves behind it an abyss.”

Antonio Porchia

Todo lo que cambia, donde cambia, deja detrás de sí un aibsmo.
Voces (1943)

“I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.”

Antonio Porchia

He sido para mí, discípulo y maestro. Y he sido un buen discípulo, pero un mal maestro.
Voces (1943)

“Reason is lost reasoning.”

Antonio Porchia

Voces (1943)

“No usar defectos. no significa no tenerlos.”

Antonio Porchia

Not using faults does not mean one does not have them.
Voces (1943)

“Mi pobreza no es total: falto yo.”

Antonio Porchia

My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
Voces (1943)