“In a full heart there is room for everything. In an empty heart there is room for nothing.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
En una alma llena cabe todo y en una alma vacía no cabe nada.
Voces (1943)
“How full of trifles everything is! It is only one’s thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.”
Letter to his future wife Elsie Moll Kachel (16 May 1907); as published in Souvenirs and Prophecies: the Young Wallace Stevens (1977) edited by Holly Stevens, Ch. 9
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Than that which guides the enlightened patriot's toll:
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