“I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.”
“It was the sea and I. And the sea was alone and I was alone. One of the two was missing.”
Éramos yo y el mar. Y el mar estaba solo y solo yo. Uno de los dos faltaba.
Voces (1943)
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Éramos yo y el mar. Y el mar estaba solo y solo yo. Uno de los dos faltaba.
Variant: Éramos yo y el mar. Y el mar estaba solo y solo yo. Uno de los dos faltaba.
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Antonio Porchia 276
Italian Argentinian poet 1885–1968Related quotes
“A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.”
“Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.”
Source: The Popular Girl
“Singing, "Here came a mortal,
But faithless was she:
And alone dwell for ever
The kings of the sea."”
St. 7
The Forsaken Merman (1849)
Variant: For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.
Source: 100 Selected Poems