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More Quotes by Federico García Lorca
I know there is no straight road No straight road in this world Only a giant labyrinth Of intersecting crossroads
To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.
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.
As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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.
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.
I've often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake
Only mystery allows us to live, only mystery.
Those who are afraid of death will carry it on their shoulders.
Understand one single day fully, so you can love every night.
