Federico García Lorca
Poetic surrealist of Blood Wedding, Lorca's imagery evoked quotable passions of love and death.
Quotes by Federico García Lorca
The theater is a sanctuary of dreams.
The most beautiful things are those that are forbidden.
The poet must be a rebel.
The theater is a refuge for the soul.
The most beautiful things are those that are dangerous.
The poet must be a lover.
The theater is a mirror of the human condition.
The most beautiful things are those that are impossible.
The poet must be a madman.
The theater is a celebration of the human spirit.
To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.
The moon came to the forge in a shirt of fire.
I am like a violin string after the concert which still vibrates with the music.
The theater is one of the most expressive and life-giving art forms.
In the wounded and wild Madrid, the night is an arrow.
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
The duende is a power and not a work, a struggle and not a thought.
New York is a devouring machine.
The poet is a little God.
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.