155 Quotes by Antonio Porchia

We become aware of the void as we fill it.

I am chained to the earth to pay for freedom of my eyes.

Only the wound speaks its own word.

A full heart has room for everything and empty heart has room for nothing. Who understands?

One learns not to need by needing.

Night is a world lit by itself

I have abandoned the beggarly necessity of living. I live without it.

I am in myself so little that what they do with me scarcely interests me.

I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.