Quotes by Federico Garcia Lorca

About Federico Garcia Lorca:

Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director.
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Julieta, la noche no es un momento, pero un momento puede durar toda la noche.

Federico Garcia Lorca

Vamos al rincón oscuro, donde yo siempre te quiera, que no me importe la gente, ni el veneno que nos echa.

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NOVIA. ¡Porque yo me fui con el otro, me fui! (Con angustia.) Tú también te hubieras ido. Yo era una mujer quemada, llena de llagas por dentro y por fuera,y tu hijo era un poquito de agua de la que yo esperaba hijos, tierra, salud; pero el otro er...

Federico Garcia Lorca

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

Federico Garcia Lorca

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

Federico Garcia Lorca

Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.

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Blossom time, drunk together, banishing spring sorrow; drunk, we broke off flowering limbs, counters for our rounds of wine. Suddenly I remembered my old friend, gone to the edge of the sky: by my reckoning, today he must have reached Liang-chou.

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My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.

Federico Garcia Lorca

Variación / Variations El remanso de aire bajo la rama del eco. El remanso del agua bajo fronda de luceros. El remanso de tu boca bajo espesura de besos. * The still waters of the air under the bough of the echo. The still waters of the water under ...

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Suddenly, I was stopped by a quiet song . . Somebody stood, swaying slowly on the road, In the darkest shadow by a puddle, And low above it a small tree grew . . It might’ve been a wild cherry tree . . He kept singing, watching the puddle fill . . ...

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My head is full of fire and grief and my tongue runs wild, pierced with shards of glass.

Federico Garcia Lorca

Don't ask me any questions. I've seen how things that seek their way find their void instead.

Federico Garcia Lorca

With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.

Federico Garcia Lorca

To see you naked is to recall the Earth.

Federico Garcia Lorca

As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.

Federico Garcia Lorca

In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.

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New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.

Federico Garcia Lorca

The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails.

Federico Garcia Lorca

Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.

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There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.

Federico Garcia Lorca

Author Bio

  • NameFederico Garcia Lorca
  • DescriptionSpanish poet, dramatist and theatre director
  • AliasesFederico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca; García Lorca; García Lorca, Federico; Lorca
  • BornJune 5, 1898
  • DiedAugust 19, 1936
  • CountrySpain
  • ProfessionPlaywright; Poet; Theatre Director; Writer