Federico García Lorca Quotes

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

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Ever since I got married I've been thinking night and day about whose fault it was, and every time I think about it, out comes a new fault to eat up the old one; but always there's a fault left.

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The groom is like a flower of gold. When he walks, blossoms at his feet unfold.

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What's the furthest corner? Because that's where I want to be, alone with the only thing that I love.

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Men like to pleasure us, girl. They like to undo our plaits and give us water to drink from their own mouths. That's what makes the world go round.

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Oh honey, there's nothing new on this earth when it comes to what men and women do in the dark. First love is when you learn. So you've learned that love can open you up like spring sun on a wee primrose. Good. Remember that. You know how to love.

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We're all like the little sailor. From the harbors we hear the strains of accordions and the murky soapy noises of the docks, from the mountains we receive the dish of silence that the shepherds eat, but we don't hear more than our own distances. And what distances without end and without doors and without mountains!

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What matters most has an ultimate metallic quality of death. The chasuble and the wagon wheel, the razor and the prickly beards of shepherds, the bare moon, a fly, humid cupboards, rubble piles, the images of saints covered in lace, quicklime, and the wounding edges of the rooflines and watchtowers.

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I have often lost myself in the sea, ears full of newly cut flowers, tongue full of love and agony.

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There's no doubt that I really have a feeling for the theater. These past few days it has occurred to me to do a comedy whose chief characters are photographic enlargements. Those people we see in doorways. Newlyweds, sergeants, dead girls, an anonymous crowd full of mustaches and wrinkles. It should be terrible. If I focus it well, it will possess pathos without consolation. In the midst of those people I will place an authentic fairy.

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All one's personality is embedded in gloves and hats after they've been good and used. Show me a glove and I'll tell you the character of its owner.

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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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Fire is fed by fire. The same small flame destroys Two stalks of wheat at once.

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Black are the horses.
The horseshoes are black.
On the dark capes glisten stains of ink and of wax.
Their skulls are leaden, which is why they don't weep.
With their patent leather souls they come down the street.

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

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New York is a meeting place for every race in the world, but the Chinese, Armenians, Russians, and Germans remain foreigners. So does everyone except the blacks. There is no doubt but that the blacks exercise great influence in North America, and, no matter what anyone says, they are the most delicate, spiritual element in that world.

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The still pool of air
under the branch of echo.

The still pool of water
under a frond of stars.

The still pool of your mouth
under a thicket of kisses.

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Damned, damned be the rich! May not even their fingernails be left!... I'm sure that they are going to Hell head-first.

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The dancer's trembling heart must bring everything into harmony, from the tips of her shoes to the flutter of her eyelashes, from the ruffles of her dress to the incessant play of her fingers.

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I'm satisfied. I am progressively making my life and my name in the surest and purest manner. If I catch on in the theater, as I think I will, all the doors will gladly open wide for me.

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Hail, mute devil! You are the most intense animal. An eternal mystic of the fleshly inferno...

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

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Just as the light and weightless vegetation of saltpeter floats over the old walls of houses as soon as the owner gets careless, so the literary vocation springs up in you.

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I'll always be happy if they'd leave me alone in that delightful and unknown furthest corner, apart from struggles, putrefactions and nonsense; the ultimate corner of sugar and toast, where the mermaids catch the branches of the willows and the heart opens to a flute's sharpness.

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The world is a shoulder of dark meat (black flesh of an old mule). And the light is on the other side.

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I want to be a poet, from head to toe, living and dying by poetry.

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Green how I want you green.
Green wind.
Green boughs.
The ship on the sea
and the horse on the mountain.

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They ride the roads
with souls of patent leather.
Hunched and nocturnal,
they command, where they appear,
the silence of dark rubber
and fears of fine sand.

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Without silver light on their foliage the trees had grown larger and a horizon of dogs barked very far from the river.

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