Federico Garcia Lorca
Federico Garcia Lorca
Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca, known as Federico García Lorcawas a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth5 June 1898
CountrySpain
travel cities two
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
art eye dark
I sing your restless longing for the statue, your fear of the feelings that await you in the street. I sing the small sea siren who sings to you, riding her bicycle of corals and conches. But above all I sing a common thought that joins us in the dark and golden hours. The light that blinds our eyes is not art. Rather it is love, friendship, crossed swords.
spiritual laughter drama
A nation that does not support and encourage its theater is - if not dead - dying; just as a theater that does not capture with laughter and tears the social and historical pulse, the drama of its people, the genuine color of the spiritual and natural landscape, has no right to call itself theater; but only a place for amusement.
hurt might curious
We're all curious about what might hurt us.
country world spain
In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
stars wall butterfly
Hour of Stars (1920) The round silence of night, one note on the stave of the infinite. Ripe with lost poems, I step naked into the street. The blackness riddled by the singing of crickets: sound, that dead will-o'-the-wisp, that musical light perceived by the spirit. A thousand butterfly skeletons sleep within my walls. A wild crowd of young breezes over the river.
may firsts rich
Damned, damned be the rich! May not even their fingernails be left!... I'm sure that they are going to Hell head-first.
heaven battle poetic
There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.
ocean moon window
Moon like a large stainedglass window that breaks on the ocean.
america cuba world
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.
worry worried born
As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
mystery
Only mystery allows us to live, only mystery.
life hate people
The one thing life has taught me is that most people spend their lives bottled up inside their houses doing the things they hate.
eye sea dollars
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.