Quotations from

Antonio Porchia

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Antonio Porchia (Italian pronunciation: [ˈpɔrkja]; November 13, 1885 – November 9, 1968) was an Argentine poet.

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Quotes from Antonio Porchia

You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.

—Antonio Porchia

He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something.

—Antonio Porchia

The real "it is well" is something I say from the ground, having fallen.

—Antonio Porchia

No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.

—Antonio Porchia

If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.

—Antonio Porchia

You are a puppet, but in the hands of the infinite, which may be your own.

—Antonio Porchia

Because they know the name of what I am looking for, they think they know what I am looking for!

—Antonio Porchia