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

— Federico García Lorca · Love quote

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves. — Federico García Lorca quote card
Poet and playwright · 1898 – 1936

Federico García Lorca was a Spanish poet and playwright, author of the Gypsy Ballads and the tragedies Blood Wedding and The House of Bernarda Alba. He was murdered by Nationalist forces at the start of the Spanish Civil War, at thirty-eight.

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