Antonio Porchia Quotes

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Antonio Porchia

Profession : Poet

Birth : November 13, 1885

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

Antonio Porchia

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.

Antonio Porchia

Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.

Antonio Porchia

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Antonio Porchia

If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.

Antonio Porchia

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

Antonio Porchia

He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.

Antonio Porchia

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

Antonio Porchia

Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.

Antonio Porchia

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

Antonio Porchia

He who does not know how to create should not know.

Antonio Porchia

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

Antonio Porchia

If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.

Antonio Porchia

They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.

Antonio Porchia

What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.

Antonio Porchia

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

Antonio Porchia

He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with.

Antonio Porchia

Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.

Antonio Porchia

God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.

Antonio Porchia

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

Antonio Porchia