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Federico Garcia Lorca quotes

Spanish Poet June 5, 1898 – August 19, 1936

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Everyone understands the pain that accompanies death, but genuine pain doesn't live in the spirit, nor in the air, nor in our lives, nor on these terraces of billowing smoke. The genuine pain that keeps everything awakeis a tiny, infinite burnon the innocent eyes of other systems. Federico Garcia Lorca
At five in the afternoon. It was exactly five in the afternoon. A boy brought the white sheet at five in the afternoon. A frail of lime ready prepared at five in the afternoon. The rest was death, and death alone Federico Garcia Lorca
The night below. We two. Crystal of pain. You wept over great distances. My ache was a clutch of agoniesover your sickly heart of sand. Federico Garcia Lorca
I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea. 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
Federico Garcia Lorca quote: "At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy."
At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy. Federico Garcia Lorca
There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight, drench, or conceal the vast towers, but those towers, hostile to mystery and blind to any sort of play, shear off the rain's tresses and shine their three thousand swords through the soft swan of the fog. Federico Garcia Lorca
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
Federico Garcia Lorca quote: "Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization."
Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization. Federico Garcia Lorca
Federico Garcia Lorca quote: "We're all curious about what might hurt us."
We're all curious about what might hurt us. Federico Garcia Lorca
Federico Garcia Lorca quote: "Death laid its eggs in the wound"
Death laid its eggs in the wound Federico Garcia Lorca
Federico Garcia Lorca quote: "Today in my hearta vague trembling of starsand all roses areas..."
Today in my hearta vague trembling of starsand all roses areas white as my pain. Federico Garcia Lorca
After Passing ByThe children watcha distant point.Lamps go out.Some blind girlsquestion the moonand spirals of griefrise in the air.The mountains surveya distant point. Federico Garcia Lorca
The Little Mute Boy. The little boy was looking for his voice.(The king of the crickets had it.)In a drop of waterthe little boy was looking for his voice. I do not want it for speaking with; I will make a ring of itso that he may wear my silenceon his little finger. In a drop of waterthe little boy was looking for his voice.(The captive voice, far away, put on a cricket's clothes.)Translated by William S. Merwin Federico Garcia Lorca
Federico Garcia Lorca quote: "My head is full of fireand grief and my tongueruns wild,..."
My head is full of fireand grief and my tongueruns wild, piercedwith shards of glass. Federico Garcia Lorca

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