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“The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth there will be the greatest spiritual explosion the world has ever known. Humanity cannot imagine the joy that will burst into the world.”
-- Federico Garcia Lorca

#Spiritual #Joy #Humanity
“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.”
-- Federico Garcia Lorca

#Eye #Sea #Dollars
“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
-- Federico Garcia Lorca

#Unrequited Love #Memorable #Punishment
“The day hunger disappears, the world will see the greatest spiritual explosion humanity has ever seen.”
-- Federico Garcia Lorca

#Spiritual #Humanity #World
“Pero yo ya no soy yo Ni mi casa es ya mi casa. But now I am no longer I, nor is my house any longer my house.”
-- Federico Garcia Lorca

#House #Soy
“The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with it. There, as nowhere else, you feel a total absence of the spirit: herds of men who cannot count past three, herds more who cannot get past six, scorn for pure science and demoniacal respect for the present. And the terrible thing is that the crowd that fills the street believes that the world will always be the same and that it is their duty to keep that huge machine running, day and night, forever.”
-- Federico Garcia Lorca

#Running #Wall #Believe
“As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.”
-- Federico Garcia Lorca

#Worry #Worried #Born
“Ever since I got married I've been thinking night and day about whose fault it was, and every time I think about it, out comes a new fault to eat up the old one; but always there's a fault left.”
-- Federico Garcia Lorca

#Night #Thinking #Faults
“I'll always be happy if they'd leave me alone in that delightful and unknown furthest corner, apart from struggles, putrefactions and nonsense; the ultimate corner of sugar and toast, where the mermaids catch the branches of the willows and the heart opens to a flute's sharpness.”
-- Federico Garcia Lorca

#Struggle #Heart #Mermaid
“My God, I have come with the seeds of questions. I planted them, and they never flowered.”
-- Federico Garcia Lorca
“I've often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake”
-- Federico Garcia Lorca

#Order #Lost #Awake
“But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed.”
-- Federico Garcia Lorca

#Broken #Soul #Mouths
“The poem, the song, the picture, is only water drawn from the well of the people, and it should be given back to them in a cup of beauty so that they may drink - and in drinking understand themselves.”
-- Federico Garcia Lorca

#Song #Drinking #People
“In the garden I will die. In the rosebush they will kill me.”
-- Federico Garcia Lorca

#Death #Garden #Dying
“Old women can see through walls.”
-- Federico Garcia Lorca

#Wall #Old Woman
“I put my head out of my window and see how much the windâ€™s knife wants to slice it off. On this unseen guillotine, Iâ€™ve placed the eyeless head of all my desires.”
-- Federico Garcia Lorca

#Knives #Wind #Desire
“Love is the kiss in the quiet nest while the leaves are trembling, mirrored in the water.”
-- Federico Garcia Lorca

#Kissing #Love Is #Water
“There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.”
-- Federico Garcia Lorca

#Heaven #Battle #Poetic
“In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.”
-- Federico Garcia Lorca

#Country #Spain #Alive
“The night below. We two. Crystal of pain. You wept over great distances. My ache was a clutch of agonies over your sickly heart of sand.”
-- Federico Garcia Lorca

#Pain #Distance #Heart
“Today in my heart a vague trembling of stars and all roses are as white as my pain.”
-- Federico Garcia Lorca

#Stars #Pain #Heart
“VariaciÃ³n / Variations El remanso de aire bajo la rama del eco. El remanso del agua bajo fronda de luceros. El remanso de tu boca bajo espesura de besos. * The still waters of the air under the bough of the echo. The still waters of the water under a frond of stars. The still waters of your mouth under a thicket of kisses. Translated from the Spanish by Lysander Kemp”
-- Federico Garcia Lorca

#Stars #Kissing #Echoes
“To see you naked is to recall the Earth.”
-- Federico Garcia Lorca

#Naked #Earth #Clothings
“Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.”
-- Federico Garcia Lorca

#Art #Black #Automation
“Devoutly the teachers point out huge fumigated domes; but beneath the statues there's no love, no love beneath the eyes set in crystal. Love is there, in flesh ripped by thirst, in the tiny hut struggling against the flood; love is there, in ditches where snakes of hunger wrestle, in the sad sea that rocks dead gulls, and in the darkest stinging kiss under pillows.”
-- Federico Garcia Lorca

#Teacher #Struggle #Eye

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