Laura Riding
American poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer (1901-1991)
Federico del Sagrado Corazon de Jesus Garcia Lorcainto Spanish literature.
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About the Federico Garcia Lorca
Federico del Sagrado Corazon de Jesus Garcia Lorcainto Spanish literature.
He initially rose to fame with Romancero gitano (Gypsy Ballads, 1928), a book of poems depicting life in his native Andalusia. His poetry incorporated traditional Andalusian motifs and avant-garde styles. After a sojourn in New York City from 1929 to 1930–documented posthumously in Poeta en Nueva York (Poet in New York, 1942)–he returned to Spain and wrote his best-known plays, Blood Wedding (1932), Yerma (1934), and The House of Bernarda Alba (1936).
Garcia Lorca was homosexual and suffered from depression after the end of his relationship with sculptor Emilio Aladren Perojo. Garcia Lorca also had a close emotional relationship for a time with Salvador Dali, who said he rejected Garcia Lorca’s sexual advances.
Garcia Lorca was assassinated by Nationalist forces at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. His remains have never been found, and the motive remains in dispute; some theorize he was targeted for being gay, a socialist, or both, while others view a personal dispute as the more likely cause.
12 Quotes by Federico Garcia Lorca
- 1.
To see you naked is to recall the Earth.
Federico Garcia LorcaSpanish poet, dramatist and prose writer (1898-1936)
- 2.
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 LorcaSpanish poet, dramatist and prose writer (1898-1936)
- 3.
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 LorcaSpanish poet, dramatist and prose writer (1898-1936)
- 4.
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
Federico Garcia LorcaSpanish poet, dramatist and prose writer (1898-1936)
- 5.
There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers’ battle with the heavens that cover them.
Federico Garcia LorcaSpanish poet, dramatist and prose writer (1898-1936)
- 6.
In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
Federico Garcia LorcaSpanish poet, dramatist and prose writer (1898-1936)
- 7.
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 LorcaSpanish poet, dramatist and prose writer (1898-1936)
- 8.
Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.
Federico Garcia LorcaSpanish poet, dramatist and prose writer (1898-1936)
- 9.
Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.
Federico Garcia LorcaSpanish poet, dramatist and prose writer (1898-1936)
- 10.
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 LorcaSpanish poet, dramatist and prose writer (1898-1936)
- 11.
Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.
Federico Garcia LorcaSpanish poet, dramatist and prose writer (1898-1936)
- 12.
As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
Federico Garcia LorcaSpanish poet, dramatist and prose writer (1898-1936)