Federico Garcia Lorca
Spanish poet and playwright
Sayings by Federico Garcia Lorca
My heart is a wounded bird that seeks to die in the branches of your love.
The poet must be a teacher, not a student.
The moment you realize you are not a machine, you become a poet.
I am a poet and I belong to all the world.
The greatest joy for a poet is to be understood.
If I have to die, let it be with my head held high.
My love for you is like a great river, always flowing, always changing, yet always the same.
To be born is to be condemned to death.
The moon is a white ship, sailing through the sky.
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, measure it, plumb it and descend into it.
My heart is bursting with all the things I want to say, but I cannot.
Poetry is the union of two words that one would never have imagined could be together and that form a mystery.
The people want the play to be a mirror of their own lives.
Silence is also a form of speech.
The saddest thing in the world is a bird in a cage.
I carry Spain within me. I am a Spaniard.
The guitar is a small coffin with a grave where the wind is stored.
Love is a short word, but it contains all: it means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being.
The only things that matter are the things that cannot be explained.
The poet is a hunter who hunts for eternal moments.