“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.””
Quotes by Federico García Lorca
“To see you naked is to recall the Earth.””
“I've often lost myself,in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake””
“I know there is no straight road No straight road in this world Only a giant labyrinth Of intersecting crossroads””
“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.””
“Never let me lose the marvelof your statue-like eyes, or the accentthe solitary rose of your breathplaces on my cheek at night.I am afraid of being, on this shore,a branchless trunk, and what I most regretis having no flower, pulp, or clayfor the worm of my despair.If you are my hidden treasure,if you are my cross, my dampened pain,if I am a dog, and you alone my master,never let me lose what I have gained,and adorn the branches of your riverwith leaves of my estranged Autumn.””
“At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.””
Federico García Lorca was a prominent Spanish poet, playwright, and director, whose works are celebrated for their deep emotional resonance and innovative style. Born in the picturesque town of Fuente...