Federico Garcia Lorca Quote
Out in the sky, no one sleeps. No one, no one. No one sleeps.In a graveyard far off there is a corpsewho has moaned for three yearsbecause of an arid landscape in his knee;and that boy they buried this morning cried so muchit was necessary to call out the dogs to keep him quiet.Life is not a dream. Careful! Careful! Careful!We fall down the stairs in order to eat the moist earthor we climb to the snow's edge with the voices of dead dahlias.But there is no oblivion; no dream:only flesh exists. Kisses tie our mouthsin a tangle of new veins,
Federico Garcia Lorca
Out in the sky, no one sleeps. No one, no one. No one sleeps.In a graveyard far off there is a corpsewho has moaned for three yearsbecause of an arid landscape in his knee;and that boy they buried this morning cried so muchit was necessary to call out the dogs to keep him quiet.Life is not a dream. Careful! Careful! Careful!We fall down the stairs in order to eat the moist earthor we climb to the snow's edge with the voices of dead dahlias.But there is no oblivion; no dream:only flesh exists. Kisses tie our mouthsin a tangle of new veins,
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About Federico Garcia Lorca
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).
García Lorca was homosexual and suffered from depression after the end of his relationship with sculptor Emilio Aladrén Perojo. García Lorca also had a close emotional relationship for a time with Salvador Dalí, who said he rejected García Lorca's sexual advances.
García 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.