Lorca Quotes

• To be honest, I wasn't crazy about the kind of poetry I found in high school English books. I didn't get really excited about poetry until I discovered Lorca in college. If it wasn't for surrealism, I'm not sure I'd have become so involved in poetry. I was attracted by the extravagant imagery and elements of fantasy. This was in the '70s and it seemed to fit the psychedelic mood of the times. I found it liberating.

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  Elaine Equi

  Crazy   Book   School  

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be encountered. Proust in Venice, Matisse's birdcages overlooking the flower market at Nice, Gide on the seventeenth-century quais of Toulon, Lorca in Granada, Picasso by Saint-Germain-des-Prés: there lies civilization and for me it can exist only under those liberal regimes in which the Present is alive and therefore capable of assimilating the Past.

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  Cyril Connolly

  Country   Nice   Lying  

  "The Unquiet Grave" by Cyril Connolly, (Part 2), 1951.

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• My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico Garcia Lorca.

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  Leonard Cohen

  Hero   Two   Yeats  

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• I tried sex once with a woman and that woman was Gala. It was overrated. I tried sex once with a man and that man was the famous juggler Federico Garcia Lorca [the Spanish Surrealist poet]. It was very painful.

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  Salvador Dali

  Sex   Men   Painful  

  1890

• What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!--and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?

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  Allen Ginsberg

  Baby   Husband   Night  

  Allen Ginsberg (2001). “Howl and Other Poems: Pocket Poets Number 4”, p.29, City Lights Publishers

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• Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

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  W. S. Merwin

  Modern   Lorca   Modern Poetry  

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• I walk with Federico Garcia Lorca around the Upper West Side in Manhattan because that was a neighborhood he lived in and I imagine walking around Paris with Cesar Vallejo, a great Peruvian poet who lived in Paris. And I kind of create the walk as a kind of drama of my apprenticeship.

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  Edward Hirsch

  Drama   Paris   Manhattan  

  "A Poet Is Born". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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