Antonio Porchia Quotes

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
Antonio Porchia

Hope, Lives, Memory

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

Heart, Nothing, Everything

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

Eyes, Point, Highest

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

Sad, Away, Gave

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

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

Everything, Knowing, Seen

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

Looking, Stop, Wanting

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

Broken, Chains, Bind

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

Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
Antonio Porchia

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

Nature, Hope, Tomorrow

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

Great, God, Deal

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

Alone, Remains, Fill

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

Himself, Step, Goes

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

Good, Bad, Master

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

Keep, Hands, Empty

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

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

Rest, Eternal, Extreme

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

Poverty, Complete, Lacks

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

Point, Lead, Alike

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

Evil, Cannot, Goodness

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

Children, Hand, Nobody

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

Truth, Friends, Few

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

Lives, Pay, Costs

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

Words, Same, Last

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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Poet

Born: November 13, 1886

Died: November 9, 1968

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