Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Antonio Porchia (Italian Poet)

Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) was an Argentinian poet. He was born in Conflenti, Italy, but, after the death of his father in 1900, moved to Argentina. He wrote a Spanish book entitled Voces, a book of aphorisms. It has since been translated into Italian and into English, French, and German. A very influential, yet extremely succinct writer, he has been a cult author for a number of renowned figures of contemporary literature and thought such as André Breton, Jorge Luis Borges, Roberto Juarroz and Henry Miller, amongst others. Some critics have paralleled his work to Japanese Haiku and found many similarities with a number of Zen schools of thought.

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Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years.
Antonio Porchia
Topics: Life

Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist.
Antonio Porchia
Topics: Vanity

Nothing that is complete breathes.
Antonio Porchia
Topics: Perfection

Man goes nowhere. Everything comes to man, like tomorrow.
Antonio Porchia
Topics: Time

Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.
Antonio Porchia
Topics: Self-Discovery

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.
Antonio Porchia
Topics: Truth

Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.
Antonio Porchia
Topics: Belief

You are a puppet, but in the hands of the infinite, which may be your own.
Antonio Porchia
Topics: Self-Control

A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.
Antonio Porchia
Topics: People

I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.
Antonio Porchia
Topics: Perspective

Some things become so completely our own that we forget them.
Antonio Porchia
Topics: Self-Discovery

I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.
Antonio Porchia
Topics: Perspective

Beyond my body my veins are invisible.
Antonio Porchia
Topics: The Body

Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant.
Antonio Porchia
Topics: Life

Night is a world lit by itself.
Antonio Porchia
Topics: Night

He who does not know how to believe, should not know.
Antonio Porchia
Topics: Belief

My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
Antonio Porchia
Topics: Poverty

Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.
Antonio Porchia
Topics: Grief

Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
Antonio Porchia
Topics: Certainty

And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain.
Antonio Porchia
Topics: Self-Discovery

When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.
Antonio Porchia
Topics: Kindness

A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.
Antonio Porchia
Topics: Honesty

You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun.
Antonio Porchia
Topics: Light

Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance.
Antonio Porchia
Topics: Life

Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.
Antonio Porchia
Topics: Life, Follow

If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.
Antonio Porchia
Topics: Kindness

We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.
Antonio Porchia
Topics: Life

If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.
Antonio Porchia
Topics: Perspective

When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.
Antonio Porchia
Topics: Solitude

Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.
Antonio Porchia
Topics: Self-Discovery

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