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More Quotes by Federico García Lorca
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.
Only mystery allows us to live, only mystery.
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.
At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.
The important thing in life is to let the years carry us along.
Old women can see through walls.
To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.
As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
Understand one single day fully, so you can love every night.
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.
