To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.
Federico Garcia LorcaWhat shall I say about poetry? What shall I say about those clouds, or about the sky? Look; look at them; look at it! And nothing more. Don't you understand anything about poetry? Leave that to the critics and the professors. For neither you, nor I, nor any poet knows what poetry is.
Federico Garcia LorcaI know there is no straight road No straight road in this world Only a giant labyrinth Of intersecting crossroads
Federico Garcia LorcaAt 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.
Federico Garcia Lorca