Cervantes Prize Recipient

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

    “Virtue is the truest nobility.”
    —Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)

    “In the corrupted currents of this world
    Offence’s gilded hand may shove by justice,
    And oft ‘tis seen the wicked prize itself
    Buys out the law; but ‘tis not so above:
    There is no shuffling.”
    —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)