Cervantes Prize Recipient

Famous quotes containing the words cervantes, prize and/or recipient:

    “To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there’s more reason to fear than to hope.”
    —Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)

    “What we have we prize not to the worth
    Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost,
    Why, then we rack the value, then we find
    The virtue that possession would not show us
    Whiles it was ours.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
    —Robert Graves (1895–1985)