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Cadaqués, en el fiel del agua y la colina,eleva escalinatas y oculta caracolas.Las flautas de madera pacifican el aire.Un viejo dios silvestre da frutas a los niños.
Sus pescadores duermen, sin ensueño, en la arena.En alta mar les sirve de brújula una rosa.El horizonte virgen de pañuelos heridosjunta los grandes vidrios del pez y de la luna.
Una dura corona de blancos bergantinesciñe frentes amargas y cabellos de arena.Las sirenas convencen, pero no sugestionan,y salen si mostramos un vaso de agua dulce.
—Federico Garcia Lorca, “Oda a Salvador Dalì”
[Cadaqués, at the fulcrum of water and hill, lifts flights of stairs and hides seashells.Wooden flutes pacify the air. An ancient woodland god gives the children fruit. 
Her fishermen sleep dreamless on the sand. On the high sea a rose is their compass.The horizon, virgin of wounded handkerchiefs, links the great crystals of fish and moon.
A hard diadem of white brigantinesencircles bitter foreheads and hair of sand. The sirens convince, but they don’t beguile, and they come if we show a glass of fresh water.]
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If I could choose one place to be right now - Cadaqués, Girona, Catalunya. Zoom

Cadaqués, en el fiel del agua y la colina,
eleva escalinatas y oculta caracolas.
Las flautas de madera pacifican el aire.
Un viejo dios silvestre da frutas a los niños.

Sus pescadores duermen, sin ensueño, en la arena.
En alta mar les sirve de brújula una rosa.
El horizonte virgen de pañuelos heridos
junta los grandes vidrios del pez y de la luna.

Una dura corona de blancos bergantines
ciñe frentes amargas y cabellos de arena.
Las sirenas convencen, pero no sugestionan,
y salen si mostramos un vaso de agua dulce.

—Federico Garcia Lorca, “Oda a Salvador Dalì”

[Cadaqués, at the fulcrum of water and hill,
lifts flights of stairs and hides seashells.
Wooden flutes pacify the air.
An ancient woodland god gives the children fruit.

Her fishermen sleep dreamless on the sand.
On the high sea a rose is their compass.
The horizon, virgin of wounded handkerchiefs,
links the great crystals of fish and moon.

A hard diadem of white brigantines
encircles bitter foreheads and hair of sand.
The sirens convince, but they don’t beguile,
and they come if we show a glass of fresh water.]

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If I could choose one place to be right now - Cadaqués, Girona, Catalunya.

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Posted on Saturday, June 30, 2012. Tagged with: Cadaquescosta bravaSpainEspanaCatalunyaseapoetryfederico garcia lorcainfinite summer
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    call Cadaqués my second town. I love my summers there.
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[bai'ra:-nik] 1. Characteristic of, or after the manner of Byron or his poetry. 2. quasi-n. pl. [after Philippics.] Declamatory utterances or invectives in the style of Byron. 3. Byronic hero: prominent literary character type of the Romantic period, whose characteristics include: extraordinary intelligence and perception; high level of education and intellectual prowess; arrogance; cunning and manipulation; emotional conflictedness; moodiness; self-criticism and introspection; self-destructive behaviour; aesthetic sophistication; dark mysterious beauty; powers of attraction; seductiveness and sexual perversion; world-weariness; distaste for social institutions and norms; disrespect of social ranks; being an outcast, an outlaw, or an exile.


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