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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I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.
—Antonio Porchia
Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.
—Antonio Porchia
Topics: Belief
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
Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.
—Antonio Porchia
Topics: Forgiveness
When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself.
—Antonio Porchia
Topics: Self-Discovery
A full heart has room for everything and an empty heart has room for nothing.
—Antonio Porchia
Topics: Perspective
You are a puppet, but in the hands of the infinite, which may be your own.
—Antonio Porchia
Topics: Self-Control
Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.
—Antonio Porchia
Topics: Perspective
Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.
—Antonio Porchia
Topics: Self-Discovery
Some things become so completely our own that we forget them.
—Antonio Porchia
Topics: Self-Discovery
Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
—Antonio Porchia
Topics: Certainty
Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
—Antonio Porchia
Topics: Flowers
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
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