Antonio Porchia
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Antonio Porchia
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Antonio Porchia was an Italian-born writer and poet.
Voces (1943)
Translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin:- Creo que son los males del alma, el alma. Porque el alma que se cura de sus males, muere.
- Translation: I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.
- I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.
- If only I could leave everything as it is, without moving a single star or a single cloud. Oh, if only I could!
- You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun.
- Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.
- You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.
- Nothing is not only nothing. It is also our prison.
- My great day came and went, I do not know how. Because it did not pass through dawn when it came, nor through dusk when it went.
- Quien no llena su mundo de fantasmas, se queda solo.
- Translation: He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
- I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone.
- They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you.
- He who holds me by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong.
- Tú crees que me matas. Yo creo que te suicidas.
- Translation: You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide.
- My heaviness comes from the heights.
- 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.
- Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed?
- You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you.
- I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.
- When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.
- We become aware of the void as we fill it.
- Because they know the name of what I am looking for, they think they know what I am looking for!
- A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.
- When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.
- Before I travelled my road I was my road.
- One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
- Sometimes, at night, I turn on the light to not see my own darkness.
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