Nikos Engonopoulos
NEWS ON THE DEATH OF THE SPANISH POET FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA ON AUGUST 19TH 1936 IN THE DITCH OF CAMINIA DE LA FUENTE ...una accion vil y disgraciado. Art and poetry do not help us to live: art and poetry help us to die absolute contempt does justice to all these rumors the investigations comments upon comments that so often lazy and vain freelancers spread regarding the mysterious and shameful conditions of the execution of unhappy Lorca by the fascists but at last! now everyone knows that for some time now — and above all in our cripples times — It is not uncommon to murder the poets.
Poetry 1948
This season of the civil war it is not a time for poetry and the like: as soon as something is turning to writing it seems as if it were written on the back side of death announcements that is why my poems are so bitter (and when — anyway —were not they?) and — above all — they are so rarely few.(Transl. Panos Bosnakis)