"Antonio Porchia" was an Argentina/Argentinian poetry/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 fiction/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.

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

They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.

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

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

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

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

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

I will help you to approach if you approach, and to keep away if you keep away.