A writer may have the force, the style and the ability but will never triumph unless duende resides within. All through Andalucia, people speak of duende and recognize it when it happens. It is a spirit that is more than one's spirit. This force becomes more of an "energetic spirit." Lorca says, "I mean secret and shuddering . . . where the angel dazzles and the muse dictates, surges from outside of us.
The duende has, "to be roused from the furthest habitations of the blood. Seeking the duende, there is neither map nor discipline. We only know it burns the blood like powdered glass, that it exhausts, rejects all sweet geometry we understand, that it sharpers styles. Emotion is impossible without the arrival of the duende."
Duende also means a radical change to all the old kinds of form. "Each person finds something new that no one had seen before, that could give life and knowledge."
Lorca discusses three arches which have within them the Muse, the angel and the duende. "Through the empty archway a wind of the spirit enters, blowing insistently over the heads of the dead, in search of new landscapes and unknown accents: a wind with the odor of a child's saliva, crushed grass, and medusa's veil, announcing the endless baptism of freshly created things."
When asked why he wrote, “A thousand tambourines of crystal wounded the light of day break,” he replied, “I will tell you I save them in the hands of trees and angels, but I cannot say more. I cannot explain their meaning and that is how it should be. Through poetry a man quickly reaches the cutting edge that the philosopher and mathematician silently turn away from.”
Lorca felt that, "Through poetry a man quickly reaches the cutting edge that the philosopher and mathematician silently turn away from."
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