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More Quotes by Federico García Lorca
Every step we take on earth brings us to a new world.
Love is the kiss in the quiet nest while the leaves are trembling, mirrored in the water.
The day we stop resisting our instincts, we'll have learned how to live.
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.
I know there is no straight road No straight road in this world Only a giant labyrinth Of intersecting crossroads
Old women can see through walls.
At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.
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.
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.
