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1. "The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish." ~ Federico Garcia Lorca
2. "As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die." ~ Federico Garcia Lorca
3. "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 Garcia Lorca
4. "Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization." ~ Federico Garcia Lorca
5. "To see you naked is to recall the Earth." ~ Federico Garcia Lorca
6. "Hour of Stars (1920)The round silence of night,one note on the staveof the infinite.Ripe with lost poems,I step naked into the street.The blackness riddledby the singing of crickets:sound,that deadwill-o'-the-wisp,that musical lightperceivedby the spirit.A thousand butterfly skeletonssleep within my walls.A wild crowd of young breezesover the river." ~ Federico García Lorca
7. "The night below. We two. Crystal of pain.You wept over great distances.My ache was a clutch of agoniesover your sickly heart of sand." ~ Federico García Lorca
8. "If I told you the whole story it would never end...What's happened to me has happened to a thousand woman." ~ Federico García Lorca
9. "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
10. "Vamos al rincón oscuro,donde yo siempre te quiera,que no me importe la gente,ni el veneno que nos echa." ~ Federico García Lorca
11. "Here I want to see those men of hard voice. Those that break horses and dominate rivers; those men of sonorous skeleton who sing with a mouth full of sun and flint." ~ Federico García Lorca
12. "Poesía es la unión de dos palabras que uno nunca supuso que pudieran juntarse, y que forman algo así como un misterio." ~ Federico García Lorca
13. "Voglio dormire un momento,un momento, un minuto, un secolo;ma tutti sappiano che non sono morto;che c'è una stella d'oro sulle mie labbra;che sono il piccolo amico del vento occidentale;che sono l'ombra immensa delle mie lacrime." ~ Federico García Lorca
14. "I've often lost myself,in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake" ~ Federico García Lorca
15. "...I am the immense shadow of my tears" ~ Federico García Lorca
16. "Today in my hearta vague trembling of starsand all roses areas white as my pain." ~ Federico García Lorca
17. "Night of Sleepless LoveThe night above. We two. Full moon.I started to weep, you laughed.Your scorn was a god, my lamentsmoments and doves in a chain.The night below. We two. Crystal of pain.You wept over great distances.My ache was a clutch of agoniesover your sickly heart of sand.Dawn married us on the bed,our mouths to the frozen spoutof unstaunched blood.The sun came through the shuttered balconyand the coral of life opened its branchesover my shrouded heart." ~ Federico García Lorca
18. "Pero yo ya no soy yoNi mi casa es ya mi casa.But now I am no longer I,nor is my house any longer my house." ~ Federico García Lorca
19. "If blue is dreamwhat then innocence?What awaits the heartif Love bears no arrows?" ~ Federico García Lorca
20. "Ditty of First Desire In the green morningI wanted to be a heart.A heart. And in the ripe eveningI wanted to be a nightingale.A nightingale. (Soul,turn orange-colored.Soul,turn the color of love.) In the vivid morningI wanted to be myself.A heart. And at the evening's endI wanted to be my voice.A nightingale. Soul,turn orange-colored.Soul,turn the color of love." ~ Federico García Lorca
21. "La poesía no quiere adeptos, quiere amantes." ~ Federico García Lorca
22. "Only mystery makes us live. Only mystery." ~ Federico García Lorca
23. "To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves." ~ Federico García Lorca
24. "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." ~ Federico García Lorca
25. "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 García Lorca
26. "El más terrible de todos los sentimientos es el sentimiento de tener la esperanza muerta." ~ Federico García Lorca
27. "Set in place the lovers who will afterwards be photographs." ~ Federico García Lorca
28. "Gelmek istemiyor gece.. Ne sen gelebiliyorsun o yüzden Ne de ben gidebiliyorum. Ama ben gidecegim. Akrepten bir günes sakagimi yese de... Ama sen geleceksin. Dilin tuzlu yagmurlarca yakilmis olsa da..." ~ Federico García Lorca
29. "The duende....Where is the duende? Through the empty archway a wind of the spirit enters, blowing insistently over the heads of the dead, in search of new landscapes and unknown accents: a wind with the odour of a child's saliva, crushed grass, and medusa's veil, announcing the endless baptism of freshly created things." ~ Federico García Lorca
30. "Jos erehtyy tiestä, joutuu naisen luo." ~ Federico García Lorca
31. "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
32. "Everyone understands the pain that accompanies death,but genuine pain doesn't live in the spirit,nor in the air, nor in our lives,nor on these terraces of billowing smoke.The genuine pain that keeps everything awakeis a tiny, infinite burnon the innocent eyes of other systems." ~ Federico García Lorca
33. "Don't ask me any questions. I've seen how things that seek their way find their void instead." ~ Federico García Lorca
34. "Angel and Muse approach from without; the Angel sheds light and the Muse gives form (Hesiod learned of them).  Gold leaf or chiton-folds: the poet finds his models in his laurel coppice. But the Duende, on the other hand, must come to life in the nethermost recesses of the blood." ~ Federico García Lorca
35. "Variación / VariationsEl remanso de airebajo la rama del eco.El remanso del aguabajo fronda de luceros.El remanso de tu bocabajo espesura de besos.*The still waters of the airunder the bough of the echo.The still waters of the waterunder a frond of stars.The still waters of your mouthunder a thicket of kisses.Translated from the Spanish by Lysander Kemp" ~ Federico García Lorca
36. "The weeping of the guitar begins. The goblets of dawn are smashed. The weeping of the guitar begins. Useless to silence it. Impossible to silence it. It weeps monotonously as water weeps as the wind weeps over snowfields. Impossible to silence it. It weeps for distant things. Hot southern sands yearning for white camellias. Weeps arrow without target evening without morning and the first dead bird on the branch. Oh, guitar! Heart mortally wounded by five swords." ~ 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. "Amor de mis entrañas, viva muerte, en vano espero tu palabra escrita y pienso, con la flor que se marchita, que si vivo sin mí quiero perderte.El aire es inmortal. La piedra inerte ni conoce la sombra ni la evita. Corazón interior no necesita la miel helada que la luna vierte.Pero yo te sufrí. Rasgué mis venas, tigre y paloma, sobre tu cintura en duelo de mordiscos y azucenas.Llena pues de palabras mi locura o déjame vivir en mi serena noche del alma para siempre oscura." ~ Federico García Lorca
39. "Si yo tuviera hambre, no pediría un pan. Pediría medio pan y un libro." ~ Federico García Lorca
40. "Death laid its eggs in the wound" ~ Federico García Lorca
41. "Life is not a dream. Careful! Careful! Careful! We fall down the stairs in order to eat the moist earth or we climb to the knife edge of the snow with the voices ofthe dead dahlias. But forgetfulness does not exist, dreams do not exist; flesh exists. Kisses tie our mouths in a thicket of new veins, and whoever his pain pains will feel that pain foreverand whoever is afraid of death will carry it on his shoulders." ~ Federico García Lorca
42. "I'll go to Santiago.And the banana tree a jellyfish." ~ Federico García Lorca
43. "A poet must be a professor of the five senses and must open doors among them." ~ Federico García Lorca
44. "I sing your restless longing for the statue,your fear of the feelings that await you in the street.I sing the small sea siren who sings to you,riding her bicycle of corals and conches.But above all I sing a common thoughtthat joins us in the dark and golden hours.The light that blinds our eyes is not art.Rather it is love, friendship, crossed swords." ~ Federico García Lorca
45. "I can't listen to you. I can't listen to your voice. It's as though I'd drunk a bottle of anise and fallen asleep wrapped in a quilt of roses. It pulls me along – and I know I'm drowning – but I go on down." ~ Federico García Lorca
46. "Amor. Amar. Amor.De la boñiga con el sol,del sol con la vaca muertay el escarabajo con el sol." ~ Federico García Lorca
47. "La aurora de Nueva York tienecuatro columnas de cienoy un huracán de negras palomasque chapotean las aguas podridas" ~ Federico García Lorca
48. "Los cien enamoradosduermen para siemprebajo la tiera seca.Andalucía tiene largos caminos rojos.Córdoba, olivos verdesdonde poner cien cruces,que los recuerden. Los cien enamoradosduermen para siempre." ~ Federico García Lorca
49. "But hurry! so united, entwined,mouths broken by love and soul bitten,time will find us destroyed" ~ Federico García Lorca
50. "La poesia no necesita adeptos, requiere amantes." ~ Federico García Lorca
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