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My poetry is a game. My life is a game. But I am not a game.
Federico Garcia Lorca
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Federico Garcia Lorca
Age: 38 †
Born: 1898
Born: June 5
Died: 1936
Died: August 19
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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.
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Oh honey, there's nothing new on this earth when it comes to what men and women do in the dark. First love is when you learn. So you've learned that love can open you up like spring sun on a wee primrose. Good. Remember that. You know how to love.
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Just as the light and weightless vegetation of saltpeter floats over the old walls of houses as soon as the owner gets careless, so the literary vocation springs up in you.
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The mirror is the mother dew, the book of desiccated twilights, echo become flesh.
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In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
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I've often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake
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The wounds were burning like suns at five in the afternoon, and the crowd broke the windows At five in the afternoon. Ah, that fatal five in the afternoon! It was five by all the clocks! It was five in the shade of the afternoon!
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Woodcutter. Cut my shadow from me. Free me from the torment of being without fruit. Why was I born among mirrors? Day goes round and round me. The night copies me in all its stars. I want to live without my reflection. And then let me dream that ants and thistledown are my leaves and my parrots.
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I'm afraid to be on this shore a trunk without limbs, and what I most regret is not to have flower, pulp, or clay for the worm of my suffering.
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Those who are afraid of death will carry it on their shoulders.
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New York is a meeting place for every race in the world, but the Chinese, Armenians, Russians, and Germans remain foreigners. So does everyone except the blacks. There is no doubt but that the blacks exercise great influence in North America, and, no matter what anyone says, they are the most delicate, spiritual element in that world.
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The important thing in life is to let the years carry us along.
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At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.
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We're all curious about what might hurt us.
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Hail, mute devil! You are the most intense animal. An eternal mystic of the fleshly inferno.
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The one thing life has taught me is that most people spend their lives bottled up inside their houses doing the things they hate.
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Green how I love you green. Green wind. Green boughs. The ship on the sea And the horse on the mountain.
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In the garden I will die. In the rosebush they will kill me.
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If I told you the whole story it would never end...What's happened to me has happened to a thousand woman.
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What shall I say about poetry? What shall I say about those clouds, or about the sky? Look look at them look at it! And nothing more. Don't you understand anything about poetry? Leave that to the critics and the professors. For neither you, nor I, nor any poet knows what poetry is.
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