Antonio Porchia Quotes

Before I traveled my road I was my road.

Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.

You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.

My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.

I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived.

Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed?

That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.

No one is a light unto himself, not even the sun.

I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.

He who tells the truth says almost nothing.

I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.

My great day came and went, I do not know how. Because it did not pass through dawn when it came, nor through dusk when it went.

Everything had been stripped of deceptions, that time. And that time I was afraid of everything.

Humanity does not know where to go because no one is waiting for it: not even God.

My final belief is suffering. And I begin to believe that I do not suffer.

When I am asleep I dream what I dream when I am awake. It's a continuous dream.

Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.

If only I could leave everything as it is, without moving a single star or a single cloud. Oh, if only I could!

The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.

He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.

some see things as they are: others as they are” (p.82) ~CXCI

I know what I have given you... I do not know what you have received.

A full heart has room for everything and empty heart has room for nothing. Who understands?

One learns not to need by needing.

Near me nothing but distances.

Night is a world lit by itself

I am chained to the earth to pay for freedom of my eyes.