Lorca Poetry Quotes

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

Federico Garcia Lorca

#2. 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.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#3. Every Song
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.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#4. The idea of the "job" as the answer to all woes, individual and social, is one of the most pernicious myths of modern society. It is promoted by politicians, parents, newspaper moralists and leaders of industry, on the left and on the right: paradise, they say, is "full employment.

Tom Hodgkinson

#5. I'm obsessed with the Clarisonic brush. It actually makes you feel like you've had a facial. It helps prevent ingrown hairs after shaving, too.

Brad Goreski

#6. In the rain-swept afternoon
my heart discovers
the tragedy of autumn
raining from the trees.

Martin Sorrell

#7. Art knows neither doctrine nor idea; its nature is to show.

Guy Davenport

#8. Sutton's dead. Tell no one. Keep playing along ... or you're next.

Sara Shepard

#9. 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

Federico Garcia Lorca

#10. Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.

Vivien Leigh

#11. I'm in the basement of a club with a porn star and bazillion vampires, and we're waiting for their queen. You tell me if I'm crazy." ~ Jackie Brighton

Jill Myles

#12. Death cancels all engagements.

Max Beerbohm

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

Federico Garcia Lorca

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

Federico Garcia Lorca

#15. You told me once
about how they used
to build whole city states
out of poems
how everything you see here
is made out of
the bones of dreams
how having a stiff
drink with lorca meant
you had to write
everything down right away
lately the words just
won't come

John Dorsey

#16. A penny will not buy a penny postcard or a penny whistle or a single piece of penny candy. It will not even, if you're managing the U.S. Mint, buy a penny.

P. J. O'Rourke

#17. 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

#18. Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.

Ruth Benedict

#19. There are ways of doing stunts without me. I get no pleasure putting my life in jeopardy just to get the shot. Life is too short for that nonsense.

Eva Green

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

Federico Garcia Lorca

#21. The nice thing about having relatives' kids around is that they go home.

Cliff Richard

#22. I can't believe it. You're finally mine," he said, astonishment in his voice."I was always yours.

Alison G. Bailey

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

Federico Garcia Lorca

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

Federico Garcia Lorca

#25. Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

W.S. Merwin

#26. Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try.

John Steinbeck

#27. Words are what sticks to the real. We use them to push the real, to drag the real into the poem. They are what we hold on with, nothing else. They are as valuable in themselves as rope with nothing to be tied to.

Jack Spicer