Cervantes Prize Recipient

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

“When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.”
—Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)

“Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me
From mine own library with volumes that
I prize above my dukedom.”
—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)