Federico García Lorca's Quotes - Serious, thoughtful, interesting, entertaining quotes from the famous Spanish socialist, anti-fascist poet, playwright, theater director

Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca was born on 5 June 1898 in Fuentes, Vaqueros, Spain. He is commonly known as Federico García Lorca. He was a famous Spanish poet, playwright and theater director. Lorca gained international recognition as an emblematic member of the Group of 27. This group consisted mostly of poets who introduced the principles of European movements (Symbolism, Futurism and Surrealism etc.) into Spanish literature. Lorca became famous with Romancero Gitano (Gypsy Ballads 1928), a collection of poems that reflected the life of his native Andalusia. His poems incorporated traditional Andalusian motifs and avant-garde styles. After living in New York City, USA, from 1929 to 1930 (documented in Lorca's death in 1942 in Poeta en Nueva York), Lorca returned to Spain and wrote his most famous plays, Blood Wedding (1932), Yerma (1934), and The House of Bernarda Alba (1936).

García Lorca was homosexual and suffered from depression after the end of his relationship with sculptor Emilio Aladrán Perojo. García Lorca also had a close emotional relationship with the famous painter Salvador Dalí for a time. Dalí later revealed that he rejected García Lorca's sexual advances. Lorca was murdered by Nationalist right-wingers at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. His remains have never been found. The motive for Lorca's murder is controversial and remains unclear to this day. Some believe he was targeted for being homosexual, socialist, or both, while others consider personal conflict to be a more likely cause.

Political and social tensions were said to have been high after the assassination of prominent monarchist and anti-Popular Front spokesman José Calvo Sotelo by the Republican Assault Guards (Guardias de Asalto) in July 1936. García Lorca knew that he would be targeted and seen as an abomination by the emerging right because of his outspoken socialist views. Granada was so turbulent in those days that it had not had a mayor for months. No one dared to accept the position. When García Lorca's brother-in-law, Manuel Fernández-Montesinos agreed to accept the position, he was assassinated within a week. García Lorca was arrested on 19 August 1936, the same day he was shot.

García Lorca is believed to have been shot and killed by Nationalist militia on 19 August 1936. Author Ian Gibson argues in his book The Assassination of García Lorca that he was shot along with three other men (Joaquín Arcolas Cabezas, Francisco Galdía Melgar and Dióscoro Galindo González) at a place called Fuente Grande (Great Spring). This is on the road between Vizcarra and Alfacar. A police report released by radio station Cadena SER in April 2015 concludes that Lorca was killed by fascist forces. A Franco-era report about Lorca dated 9 July 1965 describes the writer as a socialist and a Freemason belonging to the Alhambra Lodge who engaged in homosexual and unusual activities.

García Lorca's biographer Staunton states that his killers made comments about his sexual orientation suggesting that Lorca being homosexual played a role in his death. Ian Gibson states that García Lorca's murder was part of a campaign of mass killings aimed at eliminating supporters of the left-wing Popular Front. Gibson states that rivalry between the right-wing Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right and the fascist Falange was a major cause of Lorca's death. At the time of his arrest Lorca was hiding in the home of Luis Rosales whose two brothers were high-ranking Falange members. Former CEDA parliamentary deputy Ramón Ruiz Alonso arrested García Lorca at Rosales' home. García Lorca has been said to have been apolitical and had many friends in both the Republican and Nationalist camps. Gibson refutes this in his 1978 book about Lorca's death. Gibson states for example that Lorca signed the published manifesto of Mundo Obrero. Gibson states that García Lorca was an active supporter of the Popular Front. García Lorca read this manifesto at a banquet in honor of fellow poet Rafael Alberti on 9 February 1936.

Many anti-communists were sympathetic to or assisted García Lorca. In the days before his arrest he found refuge in the home of the artist and prominent Falange member Luis Rosales The poet Gabriel Celaya wrote in his memoirs that he once saw García Lorca with the Falangist Josep García Lorca.

An excerpt from Federico García Lorca's poem Romance Sonámbulo (Sleepwalking Romance) -

Green air. Green branches.

The ship at sea

And the horse on the mountain.

With the shadow at her waist

She dreams on her balcony,

Green flesh, green hair,

With cold silver eyes.

Here are some serious, thoughtful, interesting, entertaining thoughts of Federico Garcia Lorca

Death, terrible death, leave a green branch for love.

Old women can see through walls.

In Spain there are more dead living than in any other country in the world.

The snow is falling on the desolate field of my life and my hopes that wander far and wide are afraid of freezing or getting lost.

The important thing in life is to let the years carry us along.

A nation that does not support and encourage its theater is, if not dead, dying, just as a theater that does not capture with laughter and tears the social and historical pulse, the drama of its people, the true color of the spiritual and natural landscape has no right to call itself a theater, but is only a place of entertainment.

Those who fear death will carry it on their shoulders.

One thing life has taught me is that most people spend their lives inside their homes doing things they hate.

The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold from all over the earth flow there, and death comes with it. There, as nowhere else, you feel the complete absence of spirit, herds of men who cannot count beyond three and herds who cannot go beyond six, disdain for pure science and a monstrous respect for the present. And the terrible thing is that the crowds that fill the street believe that the world will always remain the same and that it is their duty to keep that huge machine going day and night, forever.

The day hunger is eradicated from the earth, that day will be the greatest spiritual explosion the world has ever seen. Humanity cannot imagine the happiness that will burst into the world.

I know that there is no straight road in this world, no straight road, only a vast labyrinth that intersects crossroads.

Just as I am not concerned about being born, so I am not concerned about dying.

The artist, and especially the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must only heed the call that rises from three strong voices within him, the voice of death, with all its forebodings, the voice of love and the voice of art.

Love is the kiss in the quiet nest when the leaves are trembling, reflected in the water.

There is an essential sadness at the heart of all great art.

The day we stop resisting our instincts we will learn to live.

Our every step on earth takes us into a new world.

Understand a day fully so that you can love every night.

Poetry, song, painting, are only water drawn from the well of the people and it must be given back to them in the cup of beauty so that they can drink and in drinking understand themselves.

To burn with desire and to be silent about it is the greatest punishment we can bring upon ourselves.

I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy in peace the nothing they have. -Federico García Lorca

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