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More Quotes by Federico García Lorca
Old women can see through walls.
Only mystery allows us to live, only mystery.
At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.
Understand one single day fully, so you can love every night.
I know there is no straight road No straight road in this world Only a giant labyrinth Of intersecting crossroads
As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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.
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.
The day we stop resisting our instincts, we'll have learned how to live.
To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.