Federico Garcia Lorca Quotes

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• Every step we take on earth brings us to a new world.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  World, Earth, Steps

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• I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace.

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  Sides, Enjoy

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• The poem, the song, the picture, is only water drawn from the well of the people, and it should be given back to them in a cup of beauty so that they may drink - and in drinking understand themselves.

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  Song, Drinking, People

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

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  Memorable, Unrequited Love, Punishment

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• Understand one single day fully, so you can love every night.

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  Night, Every Night

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• The day we stop resisting our instincts, we'll have learned how to live.

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  Gay, Lgbt, Instinct

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• At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.

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  Art, Essentials, Melancholy

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• I've often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake

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  Order, Lost, Awake

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

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  Worry, Worried, Born

  "Diálogos de un caricaturista salvaje". Interview with Luis Bagaría, June 10, 1936.

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• Love is the kiss in the quiet nest while the leaves are trembling, mirrored in the water.

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  Kissing, Love Is, Water

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• The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the call that arises within him from three strong voices: the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art.

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  Art, Strong, Voice

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• I know there is no straight road No straight road in this world Only a giant labyrinth Of intersecting crossroads

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  Labyrinth, Giants, World

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• The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth there will be the greatest spiritual explosion the world has ever known. Humanity cannot imagine the joy that will burst into the world.

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  Spiritual, Joy, Humanity

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• Only mystery allows us to live, only mystery.

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  Mystery

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• The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with it. There, as nowhere else, you feel a total absence of the spirit: herds of men who cannot count past three, herds more who cannot get past six, scorn for pure science and demoniacal respect for the present. And the terrible thing is that the crowd that fills the street believes that the world will always be the same and that it is their duty to keep that huge machine running, day and night, forever.

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  Running, Wall, Believe

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• The one thing life has taught me is that most people spend their lives bottled up inside their houses doing the things they hate.

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  Life, Hate, People

  Federico Garcia Lorca (2010). “Lorca Plays: 1: Blood Wedding; Yerma; Dona Rosita the Spinster”, p.171, A&C Black

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• The important thing in life is to let the years carry us along.

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  Years, Things In Life, Important

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• The snow is falling on the deserted field of my life, and my hopes, which roam far, are afraid of becoming frozen or lost.

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  Fall, Snow, Frozen

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• A nation that does not support and encourage its theater is - if not dead - dying; just as a theater that does not capture with laughter and tears the social and historical pulse, the drama of its people, the genuine color of the spiritual and natural landscape, has no right to call itself theater; but only a place for amusement.

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  Spiritual, Laughter, Drama

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

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  Country, Spain, Alive

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• Those who are afraid of death will carry it on their shoulders.

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  Shoulders, Afraid Of Death

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• Old women can see through walls.

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  Wall, Old Woman

  "The House of Bernarda Alba" by Federico Garcia Lorca, Act II, (l. 597), 1936.

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• The day hunger disappears, the world will see the greatest spiritual explosion humanity has ever seen.

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  Spiritual, Humanity, World

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• ...I am the immense shadow of my tears

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  Shadow, Tears, Immense

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• My poetry is a game. My life is a game. But I am not a game.

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  Games, Life Is, Life Is A Game

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