Federico García Lorca
Spanish Poet
| Date of Birth | : | 05 Jun, 1898 |
| Date of Death | : | 19 Aug, 1936 |
| Place of Birth | : | Fuente Vaqueros, Spain |
| Profession | : | Poet, Playwright, Lyricist |
| Nationality | : | Spanish |
Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca, was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27, a group consisting mostly of poets who introduced the tenets of European movements (such as symbolism, futurism, and surrealism) into Spanish literature.
He initially rose to fame with Romancero gitano (Gypsy Ballads, 1928), a book of poems depicting life in his native Andalusia. His poetry incorporated traditional Andalusian motifs and avant-garde styles. After a sojourn in New York City from 1929 to 1930—documented posthumously in Poeta en Nueva York (Poet in New York, 1942)—he returned to Spain and wrote his best-known plays, Blood Wedding (1932), Yerma (1934), and The House of Bernarda Alba (1936).
Quotes
Total 21 Quotes
Every step we take on earth brings us to a new world.
I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace.
The poem, the song, the picture, is only water drawn from the well of the people, and it should be given back to them in a cup of beauty so that they may drink - and in drinking understand themselves.
To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.
Understand one single day fully, so you can love every night.
The day we stop resisting our instincts, we'll have learned how to live.
At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.
I've often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake
As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
Love is the kiss in the quiet nest while the leaves are trembling, mirrored in the water.
