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Duino Elegies
by Rainer Maria Rilke
Shambhala Publications, Inc., 1992
Translated by Stephen Mitchell

The First Elegy
Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels’ hierarchies? and even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart: I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence. (Read More...)

The Duende: Theory and Divertissement
by Federico Garcia Lorca

Whoever inhabits that bull’s hide stretched between the Jucar, the Gaudelete, the Sil or the Pisuerga – no need to mention the streams joining those lion-coloured waves churned up by the Plata – has heard it said with a certain frequency: “Now that has real duende !” (Read More)

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