More Quotes by Federico García Lorca
The important thing in life is to let the years carry us along.
Every step we take on earth brings us to a new world.
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
As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.
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.
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 terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with it. There, as nowhere else, you feel a total absence of the spirit: herds of men who cannot count past three, herds more who cannot get past six, scorn for pure science and demoniacal respect for the present. And the terrible thing is that the crowd that fills the street believes that the world will always be the same and that it is their duty to keep that huge machine running, day and night, forever.
To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.
