Federico Garcia Lorca Quotes

The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails.
Federico Garcia Lorca

America, United, Jazz

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

Fear, Silence, Down

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

Wind, Green, Branches

Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.
Federico Garcia Lorca

Beautiful, Moment, Full

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
Federico Garcia Lorca

Human, Two, Big

There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.
Federico Garcia Lorca

Nothing, Battle, Terrible

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

Die, Worry, Born

Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.
Federico Garcia Lorca

Art, Black, Automation

In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
Federico Garcia Lorca

Country, Dead, Alive

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

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

Money, Lost, Enough

New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.
Federico Garcia Lorca

Greatest, Lie, Lost

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Biography

Nationality: Spanish

Type: Poet

Born: June 5, 1898

Died: August 19, 1936

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