Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Federico Garcia Lorca (Spanish Poet)

Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca (1898–1936,) known as Federico García Lorca, was a Spanish poet and playwright. He was regarded as one of the most prominent figures of Spanish literary life in the twentieth century. His plays are among the best examples of 20th-century poetic drama.

Born near Granada, the son of a wealthy farmer and schoolteacher, García Lorca studied literature and law and intended a career as a musician before he turned to write. In 1928, he published his most celebrated book of poems, Romancero Gitano (Gypsy Ballads, 1953.) His reputation was consolidated with the publication of Poema del Cante Jondo (1935; Poem of the Deep Song, 1953) and Llantopor Ignacio Sánchez Mejías (Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías, 1935.) Drawing on life in his native Andalusia, these three poetry collections were characterized by unique portrayals of the rural Spanish tradition.

García Lorca visited New York for six months in 1929. He loved New York at first, but gradually became disillusioned with the city. During this time, he displayed a striking change in tone; a sense of mortality and rebellious revulsion is evident in his book of surrealistic poems, Poetaen Nueva York (1940; Poet in New York, 1955.)

After returning to Spain, García Lorca wrote a number of farces for the “La Barraca” theatrical company but it is his trilogy of folk tragedy-plays, Bodas de sangre (1933; Blood Wedding, 1939,) Yerma (1934; Yerma, 1941,) and La casa de Bernarda Alba (1936; The House of Bernarda Alba, 1947) on which his reputation as a playwright rests.

The Spanish civil war broke out at the peak of García Lorca’s creative period. He was arrested for his homosexuality and his liberal views, shot by a nationalist firing squad, and buried in an unmarked grave. His tragic death helped spread his reputation globally and contributed to his extensive influence. In 1998, on the centennial of his birth, the Spanish government flew a helicopter over Granada and released 100,000 leaflets of his poetry.

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To see you naked is to recall the Earth.
Federico Garcia Lorca

I’m hurt, hurt and humiliated beyond endurance, seeing the wheat ripening, the fountains never ceasing to give water, the sheep bearing hundreds of lambs, the she-dogs, until it seems the whole country rises to show me its tender sleeping young while I feel two hammer-blows here instead of the mouth of my child.
Federico Garcia Lorca
Topics: Birth

Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.
Federico Garcia Lorca

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.
Federico Garcia Lorca
Topics: Cities, City Life

I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea. Never as then, amid suicides, hysteria, and groups of fainting people, have I felt the sensation of real death, death without hope, death that is nothing but rottenness, for the spectacle was terrifying but devoid of greatness… I felt something like a divine urge to bombard that whole canyon of shadow, where ambulances collected suicides whose hands were full of rings.
Federico Garcia Lorca
Topics: Twentieth Century

As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
Federico Garcia Lorca
Topics: Worry

With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.
Federico Garcia Lorca
Topics: Control, Police

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