Of these writers, Lorca was the most deeply committed to these rhymed confessions of pain of a people enslaved throughout history. In the creative process of cante jondo, it is the popular poet who represents the minstrel of the lament, expressing through verse his own feelings. In this type of exchange, Lorca is the poet whose work is most frequently sung. No duerme nadie por el cielo. No duerme nadie.
Nobody sleeps in the sky.
The creatures of the moon smell and creep round their cabins. The iguanas will come to bite the men that do not dream. But Lorca is not the only poet. And there have been curious hybrids of flamenco-poetry such as the homage to the Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges, performed in song and dance by the flamenco artists of the Maestranza theater of Seville, commemorating the centennial of his birth. These cross-cultural experiences can only be defined as an admirable example of mutual enrichment, in spite of the seeming stagnation of the modern verse that constitutes flamenco poetry.