“A new pain enters and the old pains of the household receive it with their silence, not with their death.”

— Antonio Porchia

Entra una nueva pena y las viejas penas de la casa la reciben calladas, no muertas.
Voces (1943)

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Italian Argentinian poet 1885–1968

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