186 Quotes by 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.

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

Never let me lose the marvelof your statue-like eyes, or the accentthe solitary rose of your breathplaces on my cheek at night.I am afraid of being, on this shore,a branchless trunk, and what I most regretis having no flower, pulp, or clayfor the worm of my despair.If you are my hidden treasure,if you are my cross, my dampened pain,if I am a dog, and you alone my master,never let me lose what I have gained,and adorn the branches of your riverwith leaves of my estranged Autumn.

My head is full of fireand grief and my tongueruns wild, piercedwith shards of glass.

The dawn comes and no one receives it in his mouth,for there no morn or hope is possible.Occasionally, coins in furious swarmsperforate and devour abandoned children.

Verde que te quiero verde. Verde viento. Verdes ramas. El barco sobre la mar y el caballo en la montaña.

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

Con un coltello,un coltellino,in un giorno di festa, tra le due e le tre,si uccisero i due uomini dell'amore.Con un coltello,un coltellinoche lo contiene una mano,ma che penetra sottilefra le carni stupite,e si ferma nel puntodove impigliata tremal'oscura radice del grido.

To be silent and consumed by fire is the worst punishment on earth,