“Sometimes it as though I were in hell and I do not grieve. I do not find anything to grieve over.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
A veces estoy en un infierno y no me lamento. No encuentro de qué lamentarme.
Voces (1943)
“If I grieve,
I do not therefore wish to multiply
The griefs of others.”
Source: Prometheus Bound, lines 345–346 (tr. Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
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