Federico García Lorca

The most terrible of all feelings is the feeling of having hope without foundation.

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

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

The poet is the professor of the five senses.

The duende is a power, not a working, a struggle, not a thought. I have heard an old master guitarist say, 'The duende is not in the throat; the duende surges up from the soles of the feet.'

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

There are wounds that bleed in the soul without opening the skin.

Silence. Silence, I said! Silence!

The theater is a school of tears and laughter, and a free tribune where men can unmask old or mistaken standards of conduct, and explain with living examples the eternal norms of the human heart.

The artist, and particularly the poet, is always a revolutionary.

Poetry is not a luxury, but one of the necessities of life.

The poem, the song, the picture, is not ready until it has had time to ripen in the artist's mind.

I want to sleep the sleep of apples, to get away from the clamor of cemeteries.

The only thing that matters is love. Love, love, love.

The people who go to the theater are not the same as those who go to the cinema. They are more sensitive, more intelligent, more demanding.

The poet must be a professor of the five senses.

I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the peace of nothing.

The artist must cry and laugh with his people.

The most beautiful curve on a woman's body is her smile.

The moon is a sickle of silver, cutting a swathe through the sky.