Day: September 29, 2019

There Is No Book So Bad…

There is no book so bad…that it does not have something good in it.

Goodreads.com. (2019). Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Quotes (Author of Don Quixote). [online] Available at: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/4037220.Miguel_de_Cervantes_Saavedra [Accessed 29 Sep. 2019].

Translating Is Like Looking At A Tapestry From The Wrong Side

Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and colour of the right side.

Goodreads.com. (2019). Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Quotes (Author of Don Quixote). [online] Available at: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/4037220.Miguel_de_Cervantes_Saavedra [Accessed 29 Sep. 2019].

Didn’t Have A Clue About Women, But Sure Could Plot

I admire Dickens beyond words. He is one of the greatest plotters of all times. Didn’t have a clue about women, but he sure could plot.

Goodreads.com. (2019). Donna Leon Quotes (Author of Death at La Fenice). [online] Available at: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/16290.Donna_Leon [Accessed 29 Sep. 2019].

Image Source: Hunter, A. (2019). Andre Hunter (@dre0316) | Unsplash Photo Community. [online] Unsplash.com. Available at: https://unsplash.com/@dre0316 [Accessed 29 Sep. 2019].

The Reason For The Unreason is Beauty

The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.

Goodreads.com. (2019). Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Quotes (Author of Don Quixote). [online] Available at: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/4037220.Miguel_de_Cervantes_Saavedra [Accessed 29 Sep. 2019].

Poet Or Historian, Who Will You Be Today?

It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.

Goodreads.com. (2019). Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Quotes (Author of Don Quixote). [online] Available at: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/4037220.Miguel_de_Cervantes_Saavedra [Accessed 29 Sep. 2019].