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More Quotes by Federico García Lorca
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.
Understand one single day fully, so you can love every night.
Love is the kiss in the quiet nest while the leaves are trembling, mirrored in the water.
To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.
Old women can see through walls.
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.
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.
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've often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake
