“Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
El hombre, cuando no se lamenta, casi no existe.
Voces (1943)
“You grieve
Not that heaven does not exist but
That it exists without us”
Source: The Second Four Books of Poems: The Moving Target / The Lice / The Carrier of Ladders / Writings to an Unfinished Accompaniment
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Not that heaven does not exist but
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