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Letter "F" » Federico Garcia Lorca Quotes
«Never as then, amid suicides, hysteria, and groups of fainting people, have I felt the sensation of real death, death without hope, death that is nothing but rottenness, for the spectacle was terrifying but devoid of greatness.»
«I felt something like a divine urge to bombard that whole canyon of shadow, where ambulances collected suicides whose hands were full of rings.»
«As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.»
«In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.»
«Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.»
«To see you naked is to recall the Earth.»
«The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.»
Author: Federico Garcia Lorca
(Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
anguish, at first glance, Big cities, Big City, captures, closely, extra, forgivable, furious, gaieties, gaiety, gangs, gang up, geometry, glance, machines, rhythm, The Traveler, traveler, typical
«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.»
Author: Federico Garcia Lorca
(Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
machines, monstrous, Senegal, The Streets
«There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight, drench, or conceal the vast towers, but those towers, hostile to mystery and blind to any sort of play, shear off the rain's tresses and shine their three thousand swords through the soft swan of the fog.»
Author: Federico Garcia Lorca
(Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
drench, drenched, drenched in, drenches, fog, heavens, highlight, highlighted, highlighting, highlights, hostile, mist, poetic, shear, sheared, shearing, shears, shorn, skyscraper, skyscrapers, swan, Swans, swords, The Fog, The Mist, The Swan, towers
«I'm hurt, hurt and humiliated beyond endurance, seeing the wheat ripening, the fountains never ceasing to give water, the sheep bearing hundreds of lambs, the she-dogs, until it seems the whole country rises to show me its tender sleeping young while I feel two hammer-blows here instead of the mouth of my child.»
Author: Federico Garcia Lorca
(Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
bearing, ceasing, fountains, hammer, humiliated, hundreds, lambs, ripening, rises, water dog, wheat
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