Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun.Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him.Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Night is a world lit by itself.Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
A full heart has room for everything and an empty heart has room for nothing.Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
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