My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.

Quote by Antonio Porchia

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Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.

Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.

We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.

We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.

The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are...

The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are...

If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one...

If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one...

I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.

I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.

He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.

He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.

What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.

What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.

He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled...

He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled...

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

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

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there...

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there...

Certainties are arrived at only on foot.

Certainties are arrived at only on foot.

He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.

He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.

If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.

If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.

God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.

God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.

That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.

That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.

What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same,...

What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same,...

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a...

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a...

Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.

I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.