Quotes by Antonio Porchia
I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.
I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.
The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.
If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.
That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
He who does not know how to create should not know.
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.
Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.
He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with.
The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.
Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.
My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.
God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.
Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
