Top 100 Federico Garcia Lorca Quotes

#1. 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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#2. After Passing By
The children watch
a distant point.
Lamps go out.
Some blind girls
question the moon
and spirals of grief
rise in the air.
The mountains survey
a distant point.

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#3. Woodcutter. Cut my shadow from me. Free me from the torment of being without fruit. Why was I born among mirrors? Day goes round and round me. The night copies me in all its stars. I want to live without my reflection. And then let me dream that ants and thistledown are my leaves and my parrots.

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#4. Set in place the lovers who will afterwards be photographs.

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

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#6. The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

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#7. You can't look at yourself
in the ocean.
Your looks fall apart
like tendrils of light.
Night on earth.

- The Great Sadness

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#8. 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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#9. I want to sleep for half a second,
a second, a minute, a century,
but I want everyone to know that I'm still alive ...

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#10. My poetry is a game. My life is a game. But I am not a game.

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#11. 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.

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#12. Old women can see through walls.

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#13. Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.

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#14. 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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#15. What you wouldn't have suspected lives & trembles in the air. Those treasures of the day you keep just out of reach. These come & go in truckloads but no one stops to see them.

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#16. My head is full of fire
and grief and my tongue
runs wild, pierced
with shards of glass.

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#17. 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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#18. Green how I love you green. Green wind. Green boughs. The ship on the sea And the horse on the mountain.

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#19. The moon carries the masks of meningitis into bedrooms, fills the wombs of pregnant women with cold water and, as soon as I'm not careful, throws handfuls of grass on my shoulders.

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#20. Little black horse. Where are you taking your dead rider?

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#21. The air
pregnant with rainbows
shatters its mirrors
over the grove.

- Air

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#22. Death, vicious death, Leave a green branch for love.

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#23. 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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#24. We're all curious about what might hurt us.

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#25. If I told you the whole story it would never end ... What's happened to me has happened to a thousand woman.

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#26. Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.

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

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#28. A confused labyrinth
of smoky stars
entangles my hopes,
which are nearly faded

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

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#31. Don't ask me any questions. I've seen how things that seek their way find their void instead.

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#32. Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.

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#33. While the poet wrestles with the horses on his brain and the sculptor wounds his eyes on the hard spark of alabaster, the dancer battles the air around her, air that threatens at any moment to destroy her harmony or to open huge open empty spaces where her rhythm will be annihilated.

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#34. Death, lonely death, Beneath the withered leaves.

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#35. 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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#36. 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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#37. In each thing there is an insinuation of death. Stillness, silence, serenity are all apprenticeships.

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#38. I denounce everyone
who ignores the other half,
the half that can't be redeemed

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#39. Seville is a tower full of fine archers ... Under the arch of the sky, across the clear plain, she shoots the constant arrow of her river.

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#40. The night below. We two. Crystal of pain.
You wept over great distances.
My ache was a clutch of agonies
over your sickly heart of sand.

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#41. But hurry! so united, entwined,
mouths broken by love and soul bitten,
time will find us destroyed

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#42. 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.

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#43. The gitano is the most distinguished, profound and aristocratic element in my country, the one that most represents its Way of being and best preserves the fire, the blood and the alphabet of Andalusian and universal truth ...

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#44. If I die,
leave the balcony open.

The little boy is eating oranges.
(From my balcony I can see him.)

The reaper is harvesting the wheat.
(From my balcony I can hear him.)

If I die,
leave the balcony open!

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#45. 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

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#46. Even money, which shines so much, spits sometimes.

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#47. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

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

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#49. But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed.

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#50. My tongue is pierced with glass.

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#51. 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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#52. Theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair

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#53. The dreadful nostalgia for a wasted life,
the fatal feeling that you were born too late,
or the restless hope for an impossible morning
with the nearby restlessness of the flesh's ache

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

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#55. Everything's a fan. Brother, open up your arms. God is the pivot.

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#56. I'll go to Santiago.
And the banana tree a jellyfish.

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#57. If lilies would grow
backwards,
if roses would grow
backwards,
if all those roots
could see the stars
& the dead not close
their eyes,
we would become like swans.

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

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

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

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#61. The Great Sadness
You can't look at yourself
in the ocean.
Your looks fall apart
like tendrils of light.
Night on earth.

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#62. In Spain the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.

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#63. Adam & Eve. The serpent cracked the mirror in a thousand pieces, & the apple was his rock.

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#64. Paint me a heaven of love with your bloodied mouth.

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#65. 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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#66. If blue is dream
what then innocence?
What awaits the heart
if Love bears no arrows?

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#67. Life is laughter amid a rosary of death.

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#68. The children watch
a distant point.
Lamps go out.
Some blind girls
question the moon
and spirals of grief
rise in the air.
The mountains survey
a distant point.

- After Passing By

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#69. But two has never been a number
because it's only an anguish and its shadow,
it's only a guitar where love feels how hopeless it is,
it's the proof of someone else's infinity,
and the walls around a dead man,
and the scourging of a new resurrection that will never end.

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#70. 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.

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#71. Moon like a large stainedglass window that breaks on the ocean.

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#72. 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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#73. Every song
is the remains
of love.

Every light
the remains
of time.
A knot
of time.

And every sigh
the remains
of a cry.

- Every Song

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#74. A dead man in Spain is more alive than a dead man anywhere in the world.

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#75. The bride, the white bride today a maiden, tomorrow a wife.

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#76. 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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#77. There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.

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#78. Small unhurt sorrows approach the hospitals
and every day the dead take off a suit of blood.
The architectures of frost,
the lyres and moans that escape the tiny leaves
in autumn, soaking the final slopes,
died out in the blackness of felt hats.

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#79. 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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#80. But now I am no longer I,
nor is my house any longer my house.

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#81. The mirror is the mother dew, the book of desiccated twilights, echo become flesh.

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#82. 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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#83. Love is the kiss in the quiet nest while the leaves are trembling, mirrored in the water.

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#84. 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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#85. In the garden I will die. In the rosebush they will kill me.

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

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#87. I'm afraid to be on this shore a trunk without limbs, and what I most regret is not to have flower, pulp, or clay for the worm of my suffering.

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#88. 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. This is what comes of a Protestant morality, that I, as a (thank God) typical Spaniard, found unnerving.

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#89. In the borough, three boys circled a white camel
that wept because at dawn
there was no other way except through the needle's eye!
Oh cross! Oh, nails! Oh, thorn!
Oh, thorn driven to the bone until the planet rust to pieces!

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#90. Only mystery allows us to live, only mystery.

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#91. Like a snake, my heart
has shed its skin.
I hold it here in my hand,
full of honey and wounds.

- New Heart

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#92. Death laid its eggs in the wound

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#93. 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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#94. What shall I say about poetry? What shall I say about those clouds, or about the sky? Look; look at them; look at it! And nothing more. Don't you understand anything about poetry? Leave that to the critics and the professors. For neither you, nor I, nor any poet knows what poetry is.

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#95. Relish the fresh landscape of my wound, break rushes and delicate rivulets, drink blood poured on honeyed thigh.

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

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

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#98. Today in my heart a vague trembling of stars and all roses are as white as my pain.

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#99. The theater has to impose itself on the public, and not the public on the theater ... The word "Art" should be written everywhere, in the auditorium and in the dressing rooms, before the word "Business" gets written there.

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

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