Antonio Porchia
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Antonio Porchia
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"In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing."
"One lives in the hope of becoming a memory."
"Certainties are arrived at only on foot."
"They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own."
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Antonio Porchia
Antonio Porchia (November 13, 1885 - November 9, 1968) was an Argentinian poet. He was born in Conflenti (Italy) but, after the death of his father in 1900, moved to Argentina. He wrote a Spanish book entitled Voces ("Voices"), a book of aphorisms. It has since been translated into Italian and into English (by W.S. Merwin, Copper Canyon Press, 2003), French, and German. A very influential, yet extremely succinct writer, he has been a cult author for a number of renowned figures of contemporary literature and thought such as André Breton, Jorge Luis Borges, Roberto Juarroz and Henry Miller, amongst others. Some critics have paralleled his work to Japanese Haiku and found many similarities with a number of Zen schools of thought.
Works
- Voces (1943), English translation by W. S. Merwin: Voices, Copper Canyon Press, 2003, ISBN 1-55659-189-6
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- Antonio Porchia's Voces Website
- The Extraordinary Story of Antonio Porchia An essay of Prof. Vincenzo Villella
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