Antonio Porchia: Everything

Antonio Porchia was Italian Argentinian poet. Explore interesting quotes on everything.
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“He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with.”

Antonio Porchia

Quien ha visto vaciarse todo, casi sabe de qué se llena todo.
Voces (1943)

“When everything is done, the mornings are sad.”

Antonio Porchia

Cuando todo está hecho, las mañanas son tristes.
Voces (1943)

“I know I had everything, but not because I had it. I know because afterwards I had nothing else.”

Antonio Porchia

Que tuve todo lo sé, no por lo que tuve. Lo sé porque después no tuve más.
Voces (1943)

“Everything is like the rivers: the work of the slopes.”

Antonio Porchia

Todo es como los ríos, obra de las pendientes.
Voces (1943)

“A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.”

Antonio Porchia

Una cosa, hasta no ser toda, es ruido, y todo, es silencio.
Voces (1943)

“The trees are alone, the clouds are alone. Everything is alone when I am alone.”

Antonio Porchia

El árbol está solo, la nube está sola. Todo está solo cuando yo estoy solo.
Voces (1943)

“I know that you have nothing. That is why I ask you for everything. So that you will have everything.”

Antonio Porchia

Sé que tienes nada. Por ello te pido todo. Para que tengas todo.
Voces (1943)

“I have come one step away from everything and here I stay, far from everything, one step away.”

Antonio Porchia

He llegado a un paso de todo. Y aquí me quedo, lejos de todo, un paso.
Voces (1943)

“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)

“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)