More Quotes by Federico García Lorca
Only mystery allows us to live, only mystery.
The day we stop resisting our instincts, we'll have learned how to live.
I've often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake
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.
To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.
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.
Every step we take on earth brings us to a new world.
Those who are afraid of death will carry it on their shoulders.
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.
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.
