“Only the wound speaks its own word.”
Habla con su propia palabra sólo la herida.
Voces (1943)
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Habla con su propia palabra sólo la herida.
Voces (1943)
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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
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they weren’t always
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