Antonio Porchia Quotes

Vengo de morirme, no de haber nacido. De haber nacido me voy.

I have hardly touched the clay and I am made of it.

Casi no he tocado el barro y soy de barro.

And I’ll go on erasing the faulty words I put in my whole, even if my whole is left without words.

Y seguiré eliminando las palabras malas que puse en mi todo, aunque mi todo se quede sin palabras.

How many, tired of lying, commit suicide into any truth.

Cuántos, cansados de mentir, se suicidan en cualquier verdad.

It was the sea and I. And the sea was alone and I was alone. One of the two was missing.

Éramos yo y el mar. Y el mar estaba solo y solo yo. Uno de los dos faltaba.

After all this running away from finished things, I ran into myself as a finished thing. And I’m still running away from finished things.

Después de tanto huir de las cosas hechas, me he encontrado yo mismo una cosa hecha. Y sigo huyendo de las cosas hechas.

My voice tells me: “That’s how it all is.” And the echo of my voice tells me: “That’s how you are.”

Mi voz me dice: “Así es todo”. Y el eco de mi voz me dice: “Así eres tú”.

Even flowers, to exhale their perfume, must die a little.

Hasta las flores, para emanar sus perfumes, han menester morirse un poco.