Antonio Porchia: Doe

Antonio Porchia was Italian Argentinian poet. Explore interesting quotes on doe.
Antonio Porchia: 552   quotes 17   likes

“Sometimes I think that everything I see does not exist. Because everything I see is what I saw, and everything I saw does not exist.”

A veces creo que no existe todo lo que veo. Porque todo lo que veo es todo lo que vi. Y todo lo que vi no existe.
Voces (1943)

“All I know does not even help me to know it.”

Cuanto sé no me sirve ni para saberlo.
Voces (1943)

“Man, when he realizes that he is an object of comedy, does not laugh.”

El hombre, cuando sabe que es una cosa cómica, no ríe.
Voces (1943)

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

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.”

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)

“He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.”

Quien no llena su mundo de fantasmas, se queda solo.
Voces (1943)

“The killer of souls does not kill a hundred souls. He kills his own soul a hundred times.”

El matador de almas no mata cien almas; mata una alma sola, cien veces.
Voces (1943)

“Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.”

El hombre, cuando no se lamenta, casi no existe.
Voces (1943)

“Since I only prepare for what ought to happen to me, I am never prepared for what does. Never.”

Como sólo me preparo para lo que debiera sucederme, no me hallo preparado para lo que me sucede. Nunca.
Voces (1943)

“My neighbor's poverty makes me feel poor; my own does not.”

La pobreza ajena me basta para sentirme pobre; la mía no me basta.
Voces (1943)

“My dignity asks him who does me no harm to do me no harm. Of him who harms me it asks nothing.”

Mi dignidad le pide a quien no me hace daño que no me haga daño, y a quien me hace daño no le pide nada.
Voces (1943)

“What I say to myself - who says it? Who does he say it to?”

Lo que me digo, ¿quién lo dice?
Voces (1943)

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

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