Federico Garcia Lorca Quotes

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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.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

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

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  World, Earth, Steps

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

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  Art, Essentials, Melancholy

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

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Worry, Worried, Born

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

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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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• 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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• Only mystery allows us to live, only mystery.

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  Mystery

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

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Fall, Snow, Frozen

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

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  Shadow, Tears, Immense

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• Death, vicious death, Leave a green branch for love.

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  Branches, Green, Vicious

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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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• In our eyes the roads are endless. Two are crossroads of the shadow.

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  Eye, Two, Shadow

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• In each thing there is an insinuation of death. Stillness, silence, serenity are all apprenticeships.

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  Silence, Serenity, Apprenticeship

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• A poet must be a professor of the five senses and must open doors among them.

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  Doors, Five Senses, Poet

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