Antonio Porchia

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

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

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

“We become aware of the void as we fill it.”

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

“I know what I have given you... I do not know what you have received.”

“One learns not to need by needing.”

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

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

“Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.”

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

“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”

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