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Certainties are arrived at only on foot.

~Antonio Porchia

Topics: Arrived Certainties Foot Only

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

~Antonio Porchia

Topics: Brevity Eternal Extreme Infancy Rest

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

~Antonio Porchia

Topics: Empty Had Hands Keep Sake Them

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I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

~Antonio Porchia

Topics: Bad Been Disciple Good Master My Own Own

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Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.

~Antonio Porchia

Topics: Away Fly Gave Sad See Them Those Who Wings

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Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.

~Antonio Porchia

Topics: Amount Exact Little Me Much Take Too Too Much Use Whatever

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

~Antonio Porchia

Topics: Costs Lives Much Never Our Our Lives Pay Too Too Much

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

~Antonio Porchia

Topics: Am Looking Stop Wanting I Am

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My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.

~Antonio Porchia

Topics: Complete Lacks Me Poverty

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

~Antonio Porchia

Topics: Close Empty Everything Filled He Itself Knowing Seen Who

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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Poet

Born: November 13th, 1886

Died: November 9th, 1968

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