The Cricket Sings Quotes

“On little horses
disguised as panthers
the children eat the moon
as if it were a cherry.

Rage, rage, Marco Polo!
On a wheel fantastic,
the children see horizons
unknown on all the earth.”
― Federico García Lorca, The Cricket Sings: Poems & Songs for Children

“The field
of olive trees
opens and folds
like a fan.
Over the olive grove
is a sunken sky
and a dark rain
of cold bright stars.
Reeds and half-light tremble
on the banks of the river.
The gray air curls.”
― Federico García Lorca, The Cricket Sings: Poems & Songs for Children

“They have brought me a conch shell.

Within it sings
a map sized sea.
My heart
fills up with water
and little fish
of shadow and silver.

They have brought me a conch shell.”
― Federico García Lorca, The Cricket Sings: Poems & Songs for Children

“They Cut Down Three Trees

There were three.
(The day came with its axes.)
There were two.
(Skimming wings of plated silver.)
There was one.
There were none.
(It left the water naked.)”
― Federico García Lorca, The Cricket Sings: Poems & Songs for Children

“(Sing little froggy
in your shady
shanty.)”
― Federico García Lorca, The Cricket Sings: Poems & Songs for Children

“Black mare, big moon,
olives in my saddlebags.
Though I may know the roads
I'll never arrive in Cordova.”
― Federico García Lorca, The Cricket Sings: Poems & Songs for Children

“From the olive tree
I retreat,
from esparto grass
I move apart,
from the vine shoots
I repent
of having loved you so.”
― Federico García Lorca, The Cricket Sings: Poems & Songs for Children

“The lady
with the fan
and the flounces,
is looking for a husband.

The gentlemen
are married,
to tall blondes
with snow white speech.”
― Federico García Lorca, The Cricket Sings: Poems & Songs for Children