FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA QUOTES IV

Spanish poet & playwright (1898-1936)

Damned, damned be the rich! May not even their fingernails be left!... I'm sure that they are going to Hell head-first.

FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA

Doña Rosita, the Spinster

Tags: wealth


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

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interview with Luis Bagaria, El Sol, June 10, 1936


The mirror
is the mother dew,
the book of desiccated
twilights, echo become flesh.

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"Capriccio"


Between your love for me and mine for you
--air of stars and tremor of plant--
a thicket of anemones raises
with a dark moan an entire year.

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"Sonnet of the Garland of Roses"


I want to be a poet, from head to toe, living and dying by poetry.

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letter to Melchor Fernandez Almagro, February 1926

Tags: poetry


Old women can see through walls.

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The House of Bernarda Alba