Federico Garcia Lorca

My poetry is a cry, not a song.

The dream is a second life.

The blood is the language of life.

The sun is a clock that never stops.

The wind carries the voices of the dead.

I was born to suffer.

The only reality is the dream.

The night is a woman with a thousand eyes.

I have nothing to say. I am not a poet.

I do not sing, I weep.

I am not a poet, I am a man.

The dead are not dead.

The poet is not a poet, he is a man.

I am a poet and I am a Spaniard; and I am also a gypsy, and I am also a Jew, and I am also a Muslim, and I am also a Christian. I am a universal man. I am a man of the world.

Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change.

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

The people who abandon their homes for the sake of the people are the real heroes.

The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an enemy of the established order.

I don't believe in the political struggle, I believe in the human struggle.

The most dreadful thing that can happen to a poet is to be understood.