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«There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight, drench, or conceal the vast towers, but those towers, hostile to mystery and blind to any sort of play, shear off the rain's tresses and shine their three thousand swords through the soft swan of the fog.»
Author: Federico Garcia Lorca
(Playwright, Poet)
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«There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life»
«Pens are most dangerous tools, more sharp by odds Than swords, and cut more keen than whips or rods»
«Then Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and the elders, which were come to him, Be ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and staves? / When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.»
«They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.»
«Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: / Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.»
«There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.»
«They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.»
«Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.»
«The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broad swords, or canals, or statues, or songs»
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