Federico García Lorca

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

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

“The theatre is a school of weeping and of laughter, a free forum, where men can question norms that are outmoded or mistaken.”

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

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

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

“A poet is a professor of the five senses.”

“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.”

“I know there is no straight road in this world, only a giant labyrinth of intersecting crossroads.”

“But I am not a man, not a poet, not a sheet of paper. I am a wounded pulse that probes the things of the other side.”

“To see you naked is to remember the Earth.”

“The duende, then, is a power, not a work. It is a struggle, not a thought.”

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

“The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word.”