Federico García Lorca: Frases en inglés

“To see you naked is to recall the Earth.”

“At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.”

“My head is full of fire
and grief and my tongue
runs wild, pierced
with shards of glass.”

“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”

“But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed.”

“I've often lost myself,
in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake”

“I know there is no straight road
No straight road in this world
Only a giant labyrinth
Of intersecting crossroads”

“I am the immense shadow of my tears”

“Only mystery allows us to live, only mystery.”

“As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.”

“We're all curious about what might hurt us.”

“Pero yo ya no soy yo
Ni mi casa es ya mi casa.

But now I am no longer I,
nor is my house any longer my house.”

“A dead man in Spain is more alive than a dead man anywhere in the world.”

“If blue is dream
what then innocence?
What awaits the heart
if Love bears no arrows?”

“The night below. We two. Crystal of pain.
You wept over great distances.
My ache was a clutch of agonies
over your sickly heart of sand.”

“I can’t listen to you. I can’t listen to your voice. It’s as though I’d drunk a bottle of anise and fallen asleep wrapped in a quilt of roses. It pulls me along – and I know I’m drowning – but I go on down.”

“I put my head
out of my window and see
how much the wind’s knife
wants to slice it off.
On this unseen
guillotine, I’ve placed
the eyeless head
of all my desires.”

“If I told you the whole story it would never end… What's happened to me has happened to a thousand woman.”

“Don't ask me any questions. I've seen how things that seek their way find their void instead.”