Skip to main content

Writer: Antonio Porcia... !!..

A Man of Truth, must be a Man of Care !
~Mahatma Gandhi

Voces (1943)
Translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.
He who holds me by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong.
My great day came and went, I do not know how. Because it did not pass through dawn when it came, nor through dusk when it went.
You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.
I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone.
My heaviness comes from the heights.
Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed?
We become aware of the void as we fill it.
Because they know the name of what I am looking for, they think they know what I am looking for !
A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.
Before I travelled my road I was my road.
When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.

***Antonio Porchia (November 13, 1886 - November 9, 1968) was an Italian poet. He was born in Italy but, after the death of his father in 1911, moved to Argentina. He wrote a Spanish book entitled Voces ("Voices"), a book of aphorisms. It has since been translated into English (by W.S. Merwin), French, and German. A very influential, yet extremely succinct writer. Some critics have paralleled his work to japanese Haiku and found many similarities with a number of Zen schools of thought.

Comments

Priyankari said…
The last one is absolutely beautiful! Keep going...
Monday, November 6, 2006 at 6:34:00 PM GMT+5:30
Rahul Breh said…
Dear "priyankari",

"If only I could leave everything as it is, without moving a single star or a single cloud. Oh, if only I could !"
~ANTONIO PORCHIA(Voces)

Thank You...
Monday, January 29, 2007 at 6:58:00 PM GMT+5:30
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

METAPHOR :: Mrs. Moon !

ENGLISH METAPHOR :: A metaphor is another kind of comparison. It is actually a condensed simile, for it omits "as" or "like." A metaphor establishes a relationship at once; it leaves more to the imagination than a simile. EXAMPLE POETRY :: Mrs. Moon sitting up in the sky Little Old Lady rock-a-bye with a ball of fading light and silvery needles knitting the night. ~Roger McGough [Mrs. Moon]
Post a Comment
Read more

The Neurotics In Us !

No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 The neurotic has perfect vision in one eye, but he cannot remember which. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 The neurotic doesn't know how to cope with his emotional bills; some he keeps paying over and over, others he never pays at all. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook,
Post a Comment
Read more

The Wolf Battle !

This is a story about an old man who explained to his young grandson, about a battle that was going on inside himself. The grandfather said, "My child, the battle inside me is between two wolves, one of whom is so evil, full of anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, hypocrisy, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority and ego. The other is so good, full of remembrance of faith, joy, peace, love, compassion, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, and truthfulness." The grandson pondered for a minute and then asked: "Grandfather, which wolf will win the battle?" The grandfather replied simply, "The one I feed" EPILOGUE :: What the grandfather said is certainly FOOD for thought.
Post a Comment
Read more
Copyright © 2006-2018 Social World Wide