Federico García Lorca quotes

Federico García Lorca was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director, regarded as one of the most important figures of 20th-century Spanish literature. His works blend elements of folklore, surrealism, and deep emotional intensity. He became a symbol of artistic freedom and was tragically executed during the Spanish Civil War. Here are 45 of his quotes:

In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.

Federico García Lorca

As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.

Federico García Lorca

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

Federico García Lorca

To see you naked is to recall the Earth.

Federico García Lorca

There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.

Federico García Lorca

We're all curious about what might hurt us.

Federico García Lorca

Green, how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches. The ship out on the sea and the horse on the mountain.

Federico García Lorca

At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.

Federico García Lorca

The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails.

Federico García Lorca

New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.

Federico García Lorca

Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.

Federico García Lorca

A dead man in Spain is more alive than a dead man anywhere in the world.

Federico García Lorca

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 five in the afternoon! It was five by all the clocks! It was five in the shade of the afternoon!

Federico García Lorca

Little black horse. Where are you taking your dead rider?

Federico García Lorca

We old women see through walls.

Federico García Lorca

But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed.

Federico García Lorca

Pero yo ya no soy yo Ni mi casa es ya mi casa. But now I am no longer I, nor is my house any longer my house.

Federico García Lorca

I put my head out of my window and see how much the wind's knife wants to slice it off. On this unseen guillotine, I've placed the eyeless head of all my desires.

Federico García Lorca

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

Federico García Lorca

I've often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake.

Federico García Lorca

Today in my heart a vague trembling of stars and all roses are as white as my pain.

Federico García Lorca

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 that went sliding off into the sea.

Federico García Lorca