7: Salvador Dali (Saint of Delusion)
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The Painting of the Tour Door by Salvador Dali
Lorca was one of Spain's most celebrated writers and poets in the early 1900s. He was tragically assassinated on August 18, 1936 and his body was never found. It is rumored he was killed by Spanish nationalist forces both for his outspoken socialist views and for his homosexuality. When Dali first read Ode to Salvador Dali,. he was moved beyond words. The poem is filled with vivid imagery referencing a rose of desire, a moon, and even Venus - all of which are primary symbols in it. And then there is this passage, but also the rose of the garden where you live. These the rose always, our north and south, calm and engathered like an eyeless
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