Quotes from Antonio Porchia

If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.

Only a few arrive at nothing, because the way is long.

Many things, In order to assure me their lack of existence; become mine

My "I" has gone farther and farther away from me. Today it is my farthest "you".

In that world I knew that good was killing me, but I thought it was evil.

Saber morir cuesta la vida.

Only the wound speaks its own word.

Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you. – Antonio Porchia, Voices . Translated by W.S. Merwin. (Copper Canyon Press; Bilingual edition April 1, 2003)

Una cosa, hasta no ser toda, es ruido, y toda, es silencio.

As long as we thing we are worth something, we wrong ourselves.

Sí, es necesario padecer, aun en vano, para no vivir en vano.

Cuando no me hago daño, temo hacer daño.

Donde hemos puesto algo, siempre creemos que hay algo, aunque no haya nada.

K? ti?p nh?n s? ??n ??c c?a mình ?? ? l?i m?t mình v?i nó, không bao gi? hoàn t?t vi?c ti?p nh?n nó.

Tôi yêu vì nh?ng gì tôi ?ã yêu, nh?ng nh?ng gì tôi ?ã yêu, tôi s? không b?t ??u yêu l?i n?a.

Lên án m?t nh?m l?n, m?t nh?m l?n khác.

Eres cuanto te necesitan, no cuanto eres.

Tôi nói v?i ý ngh? là có l? tôi nên im l?ng. Và tôi nói.

The condemnation of an error is another error.

In full light we are not even a shadow.

A veces de noche, enciendo la luz para no ver mi propia oscuridad.

The less a creature thinks he is, the more he bears. And if he thinks he is nothing, he bears everything.

La verdad tiene muy pocos amigos y los muy pocos amigos que tiene son suicidas.

Many things, In order to assure me their lack of existence; became mine