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Cohen: " The poetry comes from a place that nobody controls "
The musician and Canadian poet delivers a beautiful unexpected speech, without papeles. - The prince Felipe opens his intervention with an honoring the victims of ETA in 31 ª delivery of the awards, in the theatre Campoamor of Oviedo
" The poetry comes from a place that nobody controls, nobody conquers ". The deep voice of the musician and Canadian poet Leonard Cohen, I reward Prince of the Letters, it has resounded in the theatre Campoamor from ten of seven in the afternoon. It has been the first emotive moment of the ceremony of delivery of the Prizes Prince of Asturias. " Doing the baggage to come I took my guitar of the brand Count, done in Spain, very light. I put in the face and it was smelling to the fragrance of the alive wood ", it has added in a speech of ten minutes, unexpected, without papers, with sunglasses in the hand and in the one that has discovered how he fell in love with the Spanish culture. They were a few words followed with many attention by the Prince.
In an act presided by the Princes and with the presence of the queen Sofía, the presents have applauded for a long time the Cohen's speech, which has been grateful for his prize " to this people " that him given "so much". Speaking to the audience he has added: " I spent the sleepless night To Myself thinking what would say, after eating up the whole chocolate and the peanuts of the minibar, I thought about a few words, but I doubt that it is necessary to recount. I have come to express another dimension of gratitude ". What yes it did was to remember how Federico García Lorca gave to him "permission" to find his own voice.
The poet explained closely how a gypsy discovered in Montreal the Spanish music: " One day was of visit in house of my mother. There was a park with a tennis court. There was a young person touching a Flemish guitar. I was charmed with it, there was something that was captivating me, wanted to touch this way ". " It took the guitar, perfected it, me and said: ' Touch It '. It explained to me where it had to put the fingers and said to me again: ' Now it touches '. It was a disaster ". Every day Soothsayer repeated and improved his learning, but after several days the young person " already did not come. I looked for his number to call him and discovered that had committed suicide. It did not know anything of him, from what part of Spain it was coming, not porqué one had taken the life. I have never counted this before but these six chords have been the base of all my music ". Everything what they have found favorable in my work comes of there " and, for extension, of Spain: " Everything comes from this land that has allowed me to put my signature in the last page ".
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