#Federico García Lorca quotes

[mournfulroses]

Federico García Lorca, from a letter to María del Reposo Urquía, featured in The Selected Letters

[mosaicos-poeticos]

Federico García Lorca

Literatura 451

[ardent-reflections]

You have the blood of a poet. You have that and always will. You show, in the middle of savage things (that I like), the gentleness of your heart, that is so full of pain and light.

Federico Garcia Lorca

[yoestuveaquiunavezfrases21]

2399-  Subió, subió, subió la voz que parecía un cántaro llenándose de agua poco a poco. ¡Claro es que al final dio un gallo, pero da gloria oírlo!

(Federico García Lorca)

[phraseoscarsan]

"Como no me he preocupado de nacer, no me preocupo de morir."

- Federico García Lorca

[arylleth]

̔⠀ federico garcía lorca, from a letter to miguel hernandez.

[contremineur]

Sein rouge du soleil et sein bleu de la lune. Torse moitié corail moitié argent obscur.

Federico García Lorca, from Arlequin

translation source unknown – any suggestions?

[raiquen]

Book Review: Poemas Esenciales by Federico Garcia Lorca

My Favorite poem of the book:

Amor de mis entrañas, viva muerte, en vano espero tu palabra escrita y pienso, con la flor que se marchita que si vivo sin mí quiero perderte. [...] Llena, pues, de palabras mi locura o déjame vivir en mi serena noche del ahora para siempre oscura. // Love of my guts, living death, in vain I await your written word and I think, with the whitering flower that if I live without me I want to lose you. [...] Fill, then, of words my madness or let me live in my serene night of now for ever dark.

My Full Review:

Oh Lorca, dear Lorca: were you set up to dissapoint me by your peers? Were my expectations too high? Is my understanding and knowledge of poetry that shallow? Was this particular selection a disservice to your works?

I think I'm simply not well versed in the style and artistic school of the "Generación del 27", but I couldn't really connect nor enjoy most of the poems included in this book.

Even the most basic symbolisms seemed too vague to me to truly grasp, and I feel so dissapointed in myself, because I really looked forward to finally reading his poetry, but the almost surrealist nature of his verses alienated me.

I hope I can come back to this book and to this poet with kinder eyes, it's the least he deserves from me.

My Other 2024 Readings

[crucifiedlovers]

Trees! Will your rugged root-tips recognise my heart amid the earth?

Federico García Lorca, “Trees” from The Dialogue of Two Snails (trans. Tyler Fisher)

[aperint]

Crimen sin cadáver

Crimen sin cadáver #aperturaintelectual #palabrasbajollave @tmoralesgarcia1 Thelma Morales García

[mournfulroses]

Federico García Lorca, from a letter to Adriano del Valle written c. September 1920

[hodrepaem]

To find a kiss of yours

what would I give

A kiss that strayed from your lips

dead to love

My lips taste

the dirt of shadows

— Federico García Lorca

[ardent-reflections]

At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.

Federico Garcia Lorca

[ellavei]

i always feel my soul become ✨bonita✨ when i quote a line of poetry in my fanfic

[rapha-reads]

"En este mundo yo siempre soy y seré partidario de los pobres. Yo siempre seré partidario de los que no tienen nada y hasta la tranquilidad de la nada se les niega."

["In this world I am and will always be a supporter of the poors. I will always be a supporter of those who have nothing, and even the tranquility of the nothingness is denied to them."]

"Yo, si tuviera hambre y estuviera desvalido en la calle no pediría un pan; sino que pediría medio pan y un libro."

["I, if I were hungry and I was helpless in the streets, wouldn't beg for a loaf of bread; rather I would ask for half a loaf of bread and a book."]

Federico García Lorca

[thegirlinthebook04]

A mí ya no me podéis cambiar. Yo he nacido poeta y artista como el que nace cojo, como el que nace ciego, como el que nace guapo. Dejadme las alas en su sitio, que yo os respondo que volaré bien.

– Federico García Lorca