The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with it. There, as nowhere else, you feel a total absence of the spirit: herds of men who cannot count past three . . .
Source: A Poet in New York, lecture, Mar 1932.
-- 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.