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You know the opinion of Cervantes? He said that reading a translation is like examining the back of a piece of tapestry.
— Carl Sagan
Since Cervantes's magnificent Knight's quest has cosmological scope and reverberation, no object seems beyond reach.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Plato is never sullen, Cervantes is never petulant, Demosthenes never comes unseasonably, Dante never stays too long.
— Nathaniel Parker
the best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish.
— Aubrey F.G. Bell
The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise. Miguel de Cervantes
— Cecilia London
While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw - that of outright unreadability.
— Martin Amis
In spite of these three obstacles, Menard's fragmentary _Quixote_ is more subtle than Cervantes'.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Faint heart never won fair maiden
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Cervantes' text and Menard's are verbally identical; but the second is almost infinitely richer.
— Jorge Luis Borges
It's madness to see life as it is and not how it should be.
— Knight Of The Woeful Countenance
Cervantes shrewdly advises to lay a bridge of silver for a flying enemy.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes
— Miguel De Cervantes