The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extrahuman architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
Source: A Poet in New York, lecture, delivered in Mardrid, Mar 1932; published in Poet in New York, 1940; tr. 1988.
-- Federico Garcia Lorca, (Jun 5 1898-1936), Spanish poet, dramatist; He was noted for his poems of death and for his dramatic trilogy: Blood Wedding,1933; Yerma, 1934; and The House of Bernarda Alba, 1936.