Federico García Lorca quotes

Only mystery allows us to live, only mystery. (Federico García Lorca)
In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
Federico García Lorca
As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
Federico García Lorca
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
Federico García Lorca
To see you naked is to recall the Earth.
Federico García Lorca
There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.
Federico García Lorca
We're all curious about what might hurt us.
Federico García Lorca
Green, how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches. The ship out on the sea and the horse on the mountain.
Federico García Lorca
At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.
Federico García 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 García Lorca
Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies. (Federico García 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 García Lorca
Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.
Federico García Lorca
A dead man in Spain is more alive than a dead man anywhere in the world.
Federico García Lorca
The wounds were burning like suns at five in the afternoon, and the crowd broke the windows At five in the afternoon. Ah, that fatal five in the afternoon! It was five by all the clocks! It was five in the shade of the afternoon!
Federico García Lorca
Little black horse. Where are you taking your dead rider?
Federico García Lorca
We old women see through walls.
Federico García Lorca
But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed.
Federico García Lorca
Pero yo ya no soy yo Ni mi casa es ya mi casa. But now I am no longer I, nor is my house any longer my house.
Federico García Lorca
I put my head out of my window and see how much the wind's knife wants to slice it off. On this unseen guillotine, I've placed the eyeless head of all my desires.
Federico García Lorca
If I told you the whole story it would never end...What's happened to me has happened to a thousand woman. (Federico García Lorca)
To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.
Federico García Lorca
I've often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake.
Federico García Lorca
Today in my heart a vague trembling of stars and all roses are as white as my pain.
Federico García 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.
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