Facts about Antonio Porchia
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Antonio Porchia was a famous Poet from Italy, who lived between November 13, 1886 and November 9, 1968.
Zodiac etc.
He/she is born under the zodiac scorpio, who is known for Transient, Self-Willed, Purposeful, Unyielding.
Our collection contains 27 quotes who is written / told by Antonio.
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Famous quotes by Antonio Porchia (27)
"In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing"
"If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point"
"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"
"I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it"
"I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them"
"I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master"
"He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with"
"He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step"
"He who does not know how to create should not know"
"He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone"
"God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man"
"Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow"
"Certainties are arrived at only on foot"
"You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own"
"Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me"
"What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same"
"What we pay for with our lives never costs too much"
"Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides"
"Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly"
"They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own"
"The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children"
"The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken"
"That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness"
"Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure"
"One lives in the hope of becoming a memory"
"My poverty is not complete: it lacks me"
"Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity"
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