“I can’t listen to you. I can’t listen to your voice. It’s as though I’d drunk a bottle of anise and fallen asleep wrapped in a quilt of roses. It pulls me along – and I know I’m drowning – but I go on down.”

Source: Bodas de sangre

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Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director 1898–1936

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