“Only the wound speaks its own word.”
Habla con su propia palabra sólo la herida.
Voces (1943)
Original
Habla con su propia palabra sólo la herida.
Voces (1943)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Antonio Porchia 276
Italian Argentinian poet 1885–1968Related quotes

Io parlo parlo ... ma chi m'ascolta ritiene solo le parole che aspetta. ... Chi comanda al racconto non è la voce: è l'orecchio.
Marco Polo to Kublai Khan, in Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities (1974), ch. 9
In fiction

Space: What love's got to do with it - The Space Review (2004)

“I speak only one language, and it is not my own.”
Source: Monolingualism of the Other: or, The Prosthesis of Origin

they weren’t always
Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 13, “Experimental Procedures” (p. 657)

“Love doesn't need to be discussed; it has its own voice and speaks for itself.”
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept