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More Quotes by Federico García Lorca
I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace.
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.
At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.
Only mystery allows us to live, only mystery.
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 joy that will burst into the world.
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.
As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
Old women can see through walls.
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 one thing life has taught me is that most people spend their lives bottled up inside their houses doing the things they hate.
