Quotes from Federico Garcia Lorca

Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.

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

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.

Even money, which shines so much, spits sometimes.

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

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

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

My God, I have come with the seeds of questions. I planted them, and they never flowered.

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

A confused labyrinth of smoky starsentangles my hopes, which are nearly faded

The one thing life has taught me is that most people spend their lives bottled up inside their houses doing the things they hate.

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

The snow is falling on the deserted field of my life, and my hopes, which roam far, are afraid of becoming frozen or lost.

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.

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

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

Life is laughter amid a rosary of death.

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

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

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.

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.

To see you naked is to recall the Earth.

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

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