Federico Garcia Lorca Quotes

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• 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…
• The day hunger disappears, the world will see the greatest spiritual explosion humanity has ever seen.
• To see you naked is to recall the Earth.
• 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…
• Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.
• I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money…
• There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.
• 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…
• At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful…
• I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money…
• The wounds were burning like suns at five in the afternoon, and the crowd broke the windows At five in the afternoon. Ah, that fatal…
• 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…
• Woodcutter. Cut my shadow from me. Free me from the torment of being without fruit. Why was I born among mirrors? Day goes round and…
• Verde que te quiero verde. Verde viento. Verde ramas. Green I love you green. Green Wind. Green branches.
• A nation that does not support and encourage its theater is - if not dead - dying; just as a theater that does not capture…
• The theater has to impose itself on the public, and not the public on the theater... The word "Art" should be written everywhere, in the…
• Theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair
• Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.
• ... the gitano is the most distinguished, profound and aristocratic element in my country, the one that most represents its Way of being and best…
• In the garden I will die. In the rosebush they will kill me.

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