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In our eyes the roads are endless. Two are crossroads of the shadow. — Federico Garcia Lorca

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 Garcia Lorca

Relish the fresh landscape of my wound, break rushes and delicate rivulets, drink blood poured on honeyed thigh. — Federico Garcia Lorca

Death, vicious death, Leave a green branch for love. — Federico Garcia 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. — Federico Garcia Lorca

Even money, which shines so much, spits sometimes. — Federico Garcia Lorca

But hurry! so united, entwined,
mouths broken by love and soul bitten,
time will find us destroyed — Federico Garcia Lorca

We're all curious about what might hurt us. — Federico Garcia Lorca

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

My head is full of fire
and grief and my tongue
runs wild, pierced
with shards of glass. — Federico Garcia Lorca

A confused labyrinth
of smoky stars
entangles my hopes,
which are nearly faded — Federico Garcia Lorca

Theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair — Federico Garcia Lorca

At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy. — Federico Garcia Lorca

Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches. — Federico Garcia Lorca

Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization. — Federico Garcia Lorca

If I told you the whole story it would never end ... What's happened to me has happened to a thousand woman. — Federico Garcia Lorca

Look at the longing, the anguish of a sad fossil world / that cannot find the accent of its first sob. — Federico Garcia Lorca

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

Men like to pleasure us, girl. They like to undo our plaits and give us water to drink from their own mouths. That's what makes the world go round. — Federico Garcia Lorca

Hail, mute devil! You are the most intense animal. An eternal mystic of the fleshly inferno ... — Federico Garcia Lorca

Death, lonely death, Beneath the withered leaves. — Federico Garcia Lorca

The groom is like a flower of gold. When he walks, blossoms at his feet unfold. — Federico Garcia Lorca

Old women can see through walls. — Federico Garcia Lorca

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 Garcia Lorca

Moon like a large stainedglass window that breaks on the ocean. — Federico Garcia Lorca

A poet must be a professor of the five senses and must open doors among them. — Federico Garcia Lorca

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 Garcia Lorca

I have often lost myself in the sea, ears full of newly cut flowers, tongue full of love and agony. — Federico Garcia Lorca

The air
pregnant with rainbows
shatters its mirrors
over the grove.

- Air — Federico Garcia Lorca

Death laid its eggs in the wound
— Federico Garcia Lorca

I am the immense shadow of my tears — Federico Garcia Lorca

Seville is a tower full of fine archers ... Under the arch of the sky, across the clear plain, she shoots the constant arrow of her river. — Federico Garcia Lorca

The bride, the white bride today a maiden, tomorrow a wife. — Federico Garcia Lorca

I denounce everyone
who ignores the other half,
the half that can't be redeemed — Federico Garcia Lorca

Little black horse. Where are you taking your dead rider? — Federico Garcia Lorca

When the moon sails out
with a hundred faces all the same,
the coins made of silver
break out in sobs in the pocket. — Federico Garcia Lorca

Air
The air
pregnant with rainbows
shatters its mirrors
over the grove. — Federico Garcia Lorca

The day hunger disappears, the world will see the greatest spiritual explosion humanity has ever seen. — Federico Garcia Lorca

I'll go to Santiago.
And the banana tree a jellyfish. — Federico Garcia Lorca

But now I am no longer I,
nor is my house any longer my house. — Federico Garcia Lorca

The world is a shoulder of dark meat (black flesh of an old mule). And the light is on the other side. — Federico Garcia Lorca

Only mystery allows us to live, only mystery. — Federico Garcia Lorca

Everything's a fan. Brother, open up your arms. God is the pivot. — Federico Garcia Lorca

My tongue is pierced with glass. — Federico Garcia Lorca

If blue is dream
what then innocence?
What awaits the heart
if Love bears no arrows? — Federico Garcia Lorca

The important thing in life is to let the years carry us along. — Federico Garcia Lorca

In Spain the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world. — Federico Garcia Lorca

Like a snake, my heart
has shed its skin.
I hold it here in my hand,
full of honey and wounds.

- New Heart — Federico Garcia Lorca

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

Love is the kiss in the quiet nest while the leaves are trembling, mirrored in the water. — Federico Garcia Lorca

My God, I have come with the seeds of questions. I planted them, and they never flowered. — Federico Garcia Lorca

Green how I love you green. Green wind. Green boughs. The ship on the sea And the horse on the mountain. — Federico Garcia Lorca

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

Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies. — Federico Garcia Lorca

I want to sleep for half a second,
a second, a minute, a century,
but I want everyone to know that I'm still alive ... — Federico Garcia Lorca

The Great Sadness
You can't look at yourself
in the ocean.
Your looks fall apart
like tendrils of light.
Night on earth. — Federico Garcia Lorca

A dead man in Spain is more alive than a dead man anywhere in the world. — Federico Garcia Lorca

I know there is no straight road No straight road in this world Only a giant labyrinth Of intersecting crossroads — Federico Garcia Lorca

What's the furthest corner? Because that's where I want to be, alone with the only thing that I love. — Federico Garcia Lorca

Paint me a heaven of love with your bloodied mouth. — Federico Garcia Lorca

In the garden I will die. In the rosebush they will kill me. — Federico Garcia Lorca

Set in place the lovers who will afterwards be photographs. — Federico Garcia Lorca

Life is laughter amid a rosary of death. — Federico Garcia Lorca

Don't ask me any questions. I've seen how things that seek their way find their void instead. — Federico Garcia Lorca

As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die. — Federico Garcia Lorca

Understand one single day fully, so you can love every night. — Federico Garcia Lorca

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca. — W.S. Merwin

Every step we take on earth brings us to a new world. — Federico Garcia Lorca

In each thing there is an insinuation of death. Stillness, silence, serenity are all apprenticeships. — Federico Garcia Lorca

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

I'm afraid to be on this shore a trunk without limbs, and what I most regret is not to have flower, pulp, or clay for the worm of my suffering. — Federico Garcia Lorca

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

My poetry is a game. My life is a game. But I am not a game. — Federico Garcia Lorca

I've often lost myself,
in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake — Federico Garcia Lorca

Fire is fed by fire. The same small flame destroys Two stalks of wheat at once. — Federico Garcia Lorca

Adam & Eve. The serpent cracked the mirror in a thousand pieces, & the apple was his rock. — Federico Garcia Lorca

The night below. We two. Crystal of pain.
You wept over great distances.
My ache was a clutch of agonies
over your sickly heart of sand. — Federico Garcia Lorca

The mirror is the mother dew, the book of desiccated twilights, echo become flesh. — Federico Garcia Lorca

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