In the green morning I wanted to be a heart. A heart. And in the ripe evening I wanted to be a nightingale. A nightingale. (Soul, turn orange-color… - Federico García Lorca

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In the green morning
I wanted to be a heart.
A heart.

And in the ripe evening
I wanted to be a nightingale.
A nightingale.

(Soul,
turn orange-colored.
Soul,
turn the color of love.)

In the vivid morning
I wanted to be myself.
A heart.

And at the evening's end
I wanted to be my voice.
A nightingale.

Soul,
turn orange-colored.
Soul,
turn the color of love.

- Ditty of First Desire

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About Federico García Lorca

Federico García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936) was a Spanish poet, dramatist, painter, pianist and composer.

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Alternative Names: García Lorca García Lorca, Federico G. F. Lorca Phenteriko Gkarthia Lorka Lorka F. García Lorca F. G. Lorca Lorca Federico Garciá Lorca Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca Phederiko Gkarthia Lorka Federiḳo Garsiyah Lorḳah Federiko Garsii︠a︡ Lorka Federico Garcia Lorca Frederico Garcia Lorca Federico del Sagrado Corazon de Jesus Garcia Lorca Garcia Lorca F. Garcia Lorca Federiko Garsia Lorka Federico Carcía Lorca Federico Carcia Lorca
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Every song
is the remains
of love.

Every light
the remains
of time.
A knot
of time.

And every sigh
the remains
of a cry.

- Every Song

"The Poet Asks His Love to Write"

Visceral love, living death,
in vain, I wait your written word,
and consider, with the flower that withers,
I wish to lose you, if I have to live without self.

The air is undying: the inert rock
neither knows shadow, nor evades it.
And the heart, inside, has no use
for the honeyed frost the moon pours.

But I endured you: ripped open my veins,
a tiger, a dove, over your waist,
in a duel of teeth and lilies.

So fill my madness with speech,
or let me live in my calm
night of the soul, darkened for ever.

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