Federico Garcia Lorca

The poet is like a mirror, which reflects what he sees.

The artist who does not express his time is nothing.

The most beautiful thing in the world is the silence before a storm.

I want to live, I want to love, I want to die.

The human heart is the only instrument that can play all the songs of life.

The greatest tragedy is not to die, but to live without love.

The moon is a white horse, and the stars are its eyes.

The only thing that can save us is love.

The butterfly is a dancing flower. The flower a tethered butterfly.

I want to be a poet, not a man of letters. I want to build, not to destroy.

The theater is a school of weeping and of laughter, a forum where man is free and can question norms of all kinds.

There are wounds that bleed but do not hurt.

The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an aristocrat, even when he has nothing to eat.

The poem, the song, the picture, is only to be endured if it is of the highest quality.

I write for the people, not for the critics.

The most complete man is he who does not lose his child's heart, but keeps it always.

Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.

The day the world ends, I will be playing a guitar.

I believe that the only way to be happy is to be a child, or a madman.

The people who sing are happy. The people who sing are free.