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Federico Garcia Lorca
Spanish
Poet
About the author
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,
Spanish
Poet
#World
#Lie
#Machines
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,
Spanish
Poet
#Fear
#Road
#Silence
To see you naked is to recall the Earth.
Federico Garcia Lorca,
Spanish
Poet
#Earth
There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.
Federico Garcia Lorca,
Spanish
Poet
#Nothing
#Battle
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
Federico Garcia Lorca,
Spanish
Poet
#Architecture
#First
#Geometry
Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.
Federico Garcia Lorca,
Spanish
Poet
#Butterflies
In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
Federico Garcia Lorca,
Spanish
Poet
#World
#Country
#Spain
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,
Spanish
Poet
#Money
#Eyes
#Sea
Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.
Federico Garcia Lorca,
Spanish
Poet
#Want
#Wind
Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.
Federico Garcia Lorca,
Spanish
Poet
#Art
As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
Federico Garcia Lorca,
Spanish
Poet
#Worry
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,
Spanish
Poet
#World
#America
#Jazz
#states
#United