More Quotes by Federico García Lorca
Those who are afraid of death will carry it on their shoulders.
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.
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.
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.
Understand one single day fully, so you can love every night.
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.
Love is the kiss in the quiet nest while the leaves are trembling, mirrored in the water.
The important thing in life is to let the years carry us along.
Only mystery allows us to live, only mystery.
