A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraTag: walter-helwich
...aunque pusieron silencio a las lenguas, no le pudieron poner a las plumas, las cuales, con más libertad que las lenguas, suelen dar a entender a quien quieren lo que en el alma esta encerrado: que muchas veces la presencia de la cosa amada turba y enmudece la intención más determinada y la lengua más atrevida." - Don Quijote de la Mancha, Parte I, Cap. XXIV
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraArt does not surpass nature but perfects it.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraAnyone who is ignorant, even a lord and prince, can and should be counted as one of the mob.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraPoetry is like an innocent young maiden who is extremely beautiful, and whom many other maidens, who are the other fields of knowledge, are careful to enrich, polish, and adorn, and she must be served by all of them. Her alchemy is such that the person who knows how to treat her will turn her into purest gold of inestimable value...she should not be allowed in the company of scoundrels or the ignorant mob incapable of knowing or appreciating the treasures that lie within her.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraIn the shadow of feigned cripples and false wounds come the strong arms of thieves and very healthy drunkards.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraTag: welfare
The man who fights for his ideals is the man who is alive.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraSois un grandísimo bellaco, y vos sois el vacío y el menguado, que yo estoy más lleno que jamás lo estuvo la muy hideputa puta que os parió.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra…que hay dos maneras de hermosura: una del alma y otra del cuerpo; la del alma campea y se muestra en el entendimiento, en la honestidad, en el buen proceder, en la liberalidad y en la buena crianza, y todas estas partes caben y pueden estar en un hombre feo; y cuando se pone la mira en esta hermosura, y no en la del cuerpo, suele nacer el amor con ímpetu y con ventajas. Cervantes, Don Quioxte, Parte II, Capítulo LVIII
... y que tu posees a ambos, que quieren decir que mi amor por tu es doblado...
Yo, Sancho, bien veo que no soy hermoso, pero también conozco que no soy disforme; y bástale a un hombre de bien no ser monstruo para ser bien querido, como tenga los dotes del alma que te he dicho."
..."that there are two kinds of beauty, the one of the soul, and the other of the body; that of the soul is revealed fully through understanding, in virtue and honesty, in good living, in generosity and good breeding, all such qualities can be found to be in a homely man; and when such beauty, not the physical one, becomes the object of desire, then love only bears more impetus, focus, and exactitude of purpose.
What is more dangerous than to become a poet? which is, as some say, an incurable and infectious disease.
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