Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
Antonio Porchia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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