The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.
The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.
Cervantes said the journey's better than the end. Practices, to me, were the journey.
In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal.
The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.
I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.
I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
Whether you choose Cervantes' serious air, Or laugh and shake in Rabelais' armchair.
Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.
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