Federico García Lorca

Film & Theater Spain 1898 – 1936 101 quotes

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.

Speech at the opening of La Barraca 1935

The most beautiful things are those that are forbidden.

Attributed

The poet must be a rebel.

Interview 1930

The theater is a refuge for the soul.

Speech at the opening of La Barraca 1935

The most beautiful things are those that are dangerous.

Attributed

The poet must be a lover.

Interview 1930

The theater is a mirror of the human condition.

Speech at the opening of La Barraca 1935

The most beautiful things are those that are impossible.

Attributed

The poet must be a madman.

Interview 1930

The theater is a celebration of the human spirit.

Speech at the opening of La Barraca 1935

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

Sonnet of the Sweet Complaint 1933

The moon came to the forge in a shirt of fire.

Romancero Gitano 1928

I am like a violin string after the concert which still vibrates with the music.

Interview

The theater is one of the most expressive and life-giving art forms.

Speech 1930

In the wounded and wild Madrid, the night is an arrow.

Poet in New York 1936

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Letter 1931

The duende is a power and not a work, a struggle and not a thought.

Play and Theory of the Duende 1933

New York is a devouring machine.

Poet in New York (posthumous) 1940

The poet is a little God.

Speech

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Poem 1927