Antonio Porchia

“They will say that you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.”

“I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.”

“Man, when he is merely what he is, is almost nothing.”

“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”

“He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something.”

“My truths do not last me long.”

“A small truth, if it is a whole truth, is a great truth.”

“My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.”

“He who tells the truth says almost nothing.”

“The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, is the rest.”

“A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything, is silence.”

“In full light, I am not seen.”

“I believe that the soul consists of its own freedom.”

“You believe you are giving and you are taking.”

“A rock is a rock, because it is a rock.”

“The chains that bind us most closely are the ones we have broken.”

“When the sun rises, I am the first to see it. Or the last. Not always the same.”

“I have, at times, been here. But I have never been.”

“I would like to be my own child.”

“When I am in need of you, I am in need of you.”