Top 80 Federico García Lorca Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Federico García Lorca

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2. “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.”

— Federico García Lorca

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3. “Theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair.”

— Federico García Lorca

4. “I’ve often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake.”

— Federico García Lorca

5. “Every step we take on earth brings us to a new world.”

— Federico García Lorca

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

— Federico García Lorca

7. “Love is the kiss in the quiet nest while the leaves are trembling, mirrored in the water.”

— Federico García Lorca

8. “Verde que te quiero verde. Verde viento. Verde ramas. Green I love you green. Green Wind. Green branches.”

— Federico García Lorca

9. “I know there is no straight road No straight road in this world Only a giant labyrinth Of intersecting crossroads.”

— Federico García Lorca

10. “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

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

— Federico García Lorca

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

— Federico García Lorca

13. “Only mystery allows us to live, only mystery.”

— Federico García Lorca

14. “I have often lost myself in the sea, ears full of newly cut flowers, tongue full of love and agony.”

— Federico García Lorca

15. “The one thing life has taught me is that most people spend their lives bottled up inside their houses doing the things they hate.”

— Federico García Lorca

16. “In each thing there is an insinuation of death. Stillness, silence, serenity are all apprenticeships.”

— Federico García Lorca

17. “Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.”

— Federico García Lorca

18. “The groom is like a flower of gold. When he walks, blossoms at his feet unfold.”

— Federico García Lorca

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

— Federico García Lorca

20. “The day hunger disappears, the world will see the greatest spiritual explosion humanity has ever seen.”

— Federico García Lorca

21. “My poetry is a game. My life is a game. But I am not a game.”

— Federico García Lorca

22. “Understand one single day fully, so you can love every night.”

— Federico García Lorca

23. “The important thing in life is to let the years carry us along.”

— Federico García Lorca

24. “Old women can see through walls.”

— Federico García Lorca

25. “What’s the furthest corner? Because that’s where I want to be, alone with the only thing that I love.”

— Federico García Lorca

26. “Death, vicious death, Leave a green branch for love.”

— Federico García Lorca

27. “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 round me. The night copies me in all its stars. I want to live without my reflection. And then let me dream that ants and thistledown are my leaves and my parrots.”

— Federico García Lorca

28. “My head is full of fire and grief and my tongue runs wild, pierced with shards of glass.”

— Federico García Lorca

29. “With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.”

— Federico García Lorca

30. “The snow is falling on the deserted field of my life, and my hopes, which roam far, are afraid of becoming frozen or lost.”

— Federico García Lorca

31. “The dancer’s trembling heart must bring everything into harmony, from the tips of her shoes to the flutter of her eyelashes, from the ruffles of her dress to the incessant play of her fingers.”

— Federico García Lorca

32. “Life is laughter amid a rosary of death.”

— Federico García Lorca

33. “We’re all curious about what might hurt us.”

— Federico García Lorca

34. “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

35. “Green how I love you green. Green wind. Green boughs. The ship on the sea And the horse on the mountain.”

— Federico García Lorca

36. “To see you naked is to recall the Earth.”

— Federico García Lorca

37. “At five in the afternoon. It was exactly five in the afternoon. A boy brought the white sheet at five in the afternoon. A frail of lime ready prepared at five in the afternoon. The rest was death, and death alone.”

— Federico García Lorca

38. “In our eyes the roads are endless. Two are crossroads of the shadow.”

— Federico García Lorca

39. “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

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40. “Those who are afraid of death will carry it on their shoulders.”

— Federico García Lorca

41. “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.”

— Federico García Lorca

42. “A poet must be a professor of the five senses and must open doors among them.”

— Federico García Lorca

43. “What shall I say about poetry? What shall I say about those clouds, or about the sky? Look; look at them; look at it! And nothing more. Don’t you understand anything about poetry? Leave that to the critics and the professors. For neither you, nor I, nor any poet knows what poetry is.”

— Federico García Lorca

44. “Moon like a large stainedglass window that breaks on the ocean.”

— Federico García Lorca

45. “My God, I have come with the seeds of questions. I planted them, and they never flowered.”

— Federico García Lorca

46. “My tongue is pierced with glass.”

— Federico García Lorca

47. “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.”

— Federico García Lorca

48. “Death laid its eggs in the wound.”

— Federico García Lorca

49. “Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.”

— Federico García Lorca

50. “All one’s personality is embedded in gloves and hats after they’ve been good and used. Show me a glove and I’ll tell you the character of its owner.”

— Federico García Lorca