Antonio Porchia Quotes

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Antonio Porchia

Profession : Poet

Birth : November 13, 1885

What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.

Antonio Porchia

My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.

Antonio Porchia

I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.

Antonio Porchia

The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.

Antonio Porchia

Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

Antonio Porchia

I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.

Antonio Porchia

Certainties are arrived at only on foot.

Antonio Porchia