Quotes from Voces — Antonio Porchia
1886–1968 Argentina
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If I didn’t think the sun looked at me a little, I wouldn’t look at it.
I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.
With the words I haven’t said I’ve disarmed my weapons.
Words that they said to me at other times, I hear now.
When you made me into another, I left you with me.
From what I awaited, came my habit of waiting.
Before I traveled my road I was my road.
A child shows his toy, a man hides his.
To wound the heart is to create it.
My bits of time play with eternity.
Nothing that is complete breathes.
Every toy has the right to break.
Near me, nothing but distances.
I know I had everything, but not because I had it. I know because afterwards I had nothing else.
In full light we are not even a shadow.
The shadows: some hide, others reveal.
The deep, seen with depth, is surface.
My heaviness comes from the heights.
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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Antonio Porchia (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.