A character in Richard Linklater's film Waking Life quotes this non-Longfellow poet, who warns, "Life is not a dream" and "The living iguanas will come and bite the men who do not dream" in the "City That Does Not Sleep.
A character in Richard Linklater's film Waking Life quotes this non-Longfellow poet, who warns, "Life is not a dream" and "The living iguanas will come and bite the men who do not dream" in the "City That Does Not Sleep." This author wrote of a "Civil Guard" on "black horses" with "black shoes" riding down the street with their "patent leather souls." Langston Hughes translated this author's collection including the line (*) "Green, how I want you green!" A poem by this author repeats "I will not see it!" about "the blood / of Ignacio on the sand" and describes a funeral "At five in the afternoon." In a play by this author, Adela kills herself during an eight-year mourning period imposed by the title matriarch. For 10 points, name this author of Gypsy Ballads, "Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter" and The House of Bernarda Alba.
A character in Richard Linklater's film Waking Life quotes this non-Longfellow poet, who warns, "Life is not a dream" and "The living iguanas will come and bite the men who do not dream" in the "City That Does Not Sleep.
Federico Garcia Lorca 